Antonyms for anonymous


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-non-uh-muh s
Phonetic Transcription : əˈnɒn ə məs


Definition of anonymous

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + onyma, Æolic dialectal form of onoma "name" (see name (n.)).
  • adj unknown, usually by choice
Example sentences :
  • Except Virgil and this anonymous rhymer, I can recall no verse about cheese.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • I received an anonymous letter, in a hand-writing I did not recognize.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • More than probably Lyttleton had been the other anonymous informant.
  • Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • The two had something written on them--anonymous information, so to speak.
  • Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • It is not certain now that the anonymous beginning had been a good thing.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • I opened it and found it to be anonymous, but I could see it came from a well-wisher.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Before his time our journalism was not only anonymous, but impersonal.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various
  • The anonymous author had taken much trouble about this work.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand
  • Barbier's work deals with French anonymous and pseudonymous books.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • In 1831 an anonymous romance was published by Marsh & Capen, of Boston.
  • Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various

Synonyms for anonymous

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