What's the difference between gameless and nameless?
Gameless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly after arriving in Rome, Las Vegas and Tallinn, however, the lines of gameless resolve I had chalked across my mind were wiped clean.
Nameless
Definition:
(a.) Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
(a.) Undistinguished; not noted or famous.
(a.) Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.
(a.) Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
(2) But whereas the earlier book was set in a nameless African state, here the location is explicitly South Africa, where revolution has driven a white, liberal family out of Johannesburg into the protection of their servant, July, in a small village riven with its own conflicts which is none too happy to shelter them.
(3) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.
(4) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(5) A 26-year-old resident of Jaffa who preferred to remain nameless said he had never voted before because it “wasn’t interesting.
(6) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
(7) The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now.
(8) The Sun sought to have the gagging order lifted, arguing that Thomas's right to freedom of expression, covered by article 10 of the European convention on human rights, outweighed the footballer's right to remain nameless under article 8, the right to privacy.
(9) Another time, I interviewed an actor – who shall remain nameless – who made me cry because it had gone so horribly wrong.
(10) Euro 2016: the complete guide to every squad and every player in France Read more The character was unveiled in November 2014 , then nameless, at a France friendly, as the build-up to Euro 2016 began.
(11) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(12) The nameless man is the "perennial open mic act – frustrated and angry at the world, he blames women, minorities, everything for his lack of success".
(13) Dead African bodies are the nameless placeholders for ( unwarranted , racist ) “ panic ”, a conversation topic too heavy for the dinner table yet light enough for supermarket aisles.
(14) Sometimes, being nameless becomes tedious for the musicians themselves, as it has done for Swedish metal band Ghost.
(15) And don’t blame No 10 Downing Street or nameless advisers, blame me.
(16) The Good, The Bad & The Queen, by Damon Albarn's officially nameless band, was the company's first album available in the new format, along with the band's single Green Fields.
(17) The Time Inc vet has been in the mix all along and is now one of the candidates for CEO of the nameless venture being announced this morning.
(18) ON MY LAST DAY IN CULIACAN, I WANDER into a nameless cantina near the market and order a beer.
(19) Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian On a hilltop beyond the Northamptonshire village of Culworth, I stopped to admire the valley formed by a nameless tributary of the River Cherwell.
(20) "Now this spying is a more insidious force which has a chilling effect, where people don't use facilities that they could have used because of a nameless fear of something happening to them."