UNNAMED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

unnamed

adjective

ˌən-ˈnāmd

Definition of unnamed

as in one

known but not named used some unnamed procedure for testing the accuracy of the device

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as in unidentified

not named or identified by a name the newspaper article quoted several unnamed sources

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Recent Examples of unnamed The 2024 juvenile justice lawsuit, which an advocacy group and multiple unnamed youth in the system filed against DCS, argued that the department places youth in facilities that are more punitive than rehabilitative. — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 25 Sep. 2026 The Jockey Club said that horse, a full sister to Merrylegs, had also been unnamed. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 Paramount executives are exploring whether to ask Elon Musk for an investment in the studio, Semafor reported, citing unnamed sources, on Wednesday. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026 The engineer explained that everything at the unnamed company is being made by Anthropic’s coding assistant Claude Code. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unnamed

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Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.

— SI.com, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.

— Johannes Himmelreich, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018

Definition of one

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In addition, that unidentified officer wasn't wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox News.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
That’s because everything and everyone in the first photo are in the exact same position in the second photo, except the mayor and the unidentified man.

— Reed Williams, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of unidentified

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That the victory was engineered by two previously anonymous or forgotten role players defines that Dodger legacy.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Embarrassingly, the same day, the White House sent Politico a letter citing its reporting on the Iran war, which noted the concerns of an anonymous source, as an example of compromising national security.

— Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026

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