Adjective: anonymous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more anonymous |
| Superlative | most anonymous |
Sample Sentences
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an anonymous pamphlet
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an anonymous subscription
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anonymous author or painter
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an anonymous author
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an anonymous benefactor
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No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
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The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy. [2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:]
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an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate
Adjectives inflected like anonymous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (ănṓnŭmos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.
Verbs referencing "anonymous"
Finnish Adjectives
anonyymi.