Antonyms for anonymous

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uh-non-uh-muh s

Phonetic Transcription : əˈnɒn ə məs

Definition of anonymous

Origin : c.1600, from Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos "without a name," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + onyma, Æolic dialectal form of onoma "name" (see name (n.)).

adj unknown, usually by choice

Example sentences :

Except Virgil and this anonymous rhymer, I can recall no verse about cheese.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

I received an anonymous letter, in a hand-writing I did not recognize.
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

More than probably Lyttleton had been the other anonymous informant.
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

The two had something written on them--anonymous information, so to speak.
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

It is not certain now that the anonymous beginning had been a good thing.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

I opened it and found it to be anonymous, but I could see it came from a well-wisher.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Before his time our journalism was not only anonymous, but impersonal.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various

The anonymous author had taken much trouble about this work.
Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand

Barbier's work deals with French anonymous and pseudonymous books.
Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan

In 1831 an anonymous romance was published by Marsh & Capen, of Boston.
Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various

Synonyms for anonymous

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