Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without fame or renown.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without fame or renown.

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  • adjective Without fame.

Etymologies

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fame +‎ -less

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Examples

  • On the cover of the novel is a photo of an anorexic young Johnny with earring and guitar; inside is his portrait of the faltering and the fameless.

    Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007

  • On the cover of the novel is a photo of an anorexic young Johnny with earring and guitar; inside is his portrait of the faltering and the fameless.

    Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007

  • On the cover of the novel is a photo of an anorexic young Johnny with earring and guitar; inside is his portrait of the faltering and the fameless.

    Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007

  • Doing such a thing actually cleans science of those who would misuse it for lies and re-deprecates experimentation to the thankless, fameless grunt work that it truly is and must remain if we are ever to mature as a species.

    Curry on the Wegman Reports « Climate Audit 2006

  • If he could even now put himself down nameless, fameless, and without possessions in some distant corner of the world, he could, he thought, do better.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison hearts and plant discontent.

    Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep William Crosbie Hunter

  • Boulogne, France, in poverty, after nearly thirty years of exiled and fameless life.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • "Oh, yes! let her alone, and in years to come she will from the dictates of her kind heart, be giving herself away to some motherless, fameless and moneyless young man, I fear!" said the worldly and far-seeing mother.

    The Rector of St. Mark's Mary Jane Holmes 1866

  • Philosophers and fools, separately or together, as the case may be -- for folly and philosophy not seldom form one Janus-head, and Minerva's bird seems sometimes not ill-fitted with the face of Momus -- these and their thousand intermediates have tried in all ages to define that quaint enigma, Man: and I wot not that any pundit of literature hath better succeeded than the nameless, fameless man -- or woman, was it?

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Philosophers and fools, separately or together, as the case may be -- for folly and philosophy not seldom form one Janus-head, and Minerva's bird seems sometimes not ill-fitted with the face of Momus -- these and their thousand intermediates have tried in all ages to define that quaint enigma, Man: and I wot not that any pundit of literature hath better succeeded than the nameless, fameless man -- or woman, was it?

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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