Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a name: opposed to anonymous: said of persons or things, as letters, books, etc.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a name.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. bearing a name. Opposite of
anonymous .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bearing a name
Etymologies
- Backformation from anonymous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“onymous" seems to believe that gay marriage and climate change are issues of this magnitude, for which "just taking orders" would not be a defence for voting against his preferences (and mine!).”
“I encourage Republicans to follow his lead. onymous Says:”
Matthew Yglesias » The Thunder and the Laughter, the Last Thing They Remember
“If you want to buddy up on NaNoWriMo, I'm registered in my usual onymous way: joshenglish.”
Liberating Education pt 3: Measures 58 and 60 (and 64 to boot)
“When I started LJ, I went the onymous route because I wanted to be open about myself, as I saw this as my eventual professional blog.”
“Having one ID on the internet is important to us onymous folks.”
“By using an onymous journal, people have to deal with all of me, but it also means I have to be very careful about my web presence.”
“Welcome to the realm of the onymous Salty Seattle.”
“If you want to create an English adjective here to serve as a de-negated “an-onymous”.”
“As “onymous” says, those checks are rather crude, at present.”
“Swimming deep into crap, he tries to uncover the identities of anonymous slush readers, agents and booksellers by hacking into their systems, bribing onymous agents and Galleycat reporters, and getting into bed with their industry rivals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘onymous’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
ozostomia, ozoniferous, oxytone, oxytocic, oxyphonia, oxymoron, oxygeusia, oxyblepsia, oxyacanthous, oxter, oxyacaesthesia, owling and 504 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Names for Names
Source and definitions: http://phrontistery.info/name.html
acronym, allonym, ananym, anonym, antonym, aptronym, autonym, caconym, cohyponym, cryptonym, dionym, eponym and 26 more...
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-onym, -onymous, -onymic
denoting or relating to names
acronym, synonymous, patronymic, antonym, ananym, anonym, aptronym, autonym, caconym, cohyponym, cryptonym, dionym and 29 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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jenlight's Words
jenlight, absurd, dada, pataphysics, thirteen, seven, beldam, onymous, smellfeast, borborygmi, orly, zomg and 34 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
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