a·non·y·mous ( -n n -ms)adj. 1. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author. 2. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call. 3. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: "a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace" (Alan Paton). [From Late Latin an  nymus, from Greek annumos, nameless : an-, without; see a-1 + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nnumnos, nameless); see n -men- in Indo-European roots.]a·non y·mous·ly adv.a·non y·mous·ness n. |
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