Meaning & use
innominate
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Having no name; not classified or specifically designated.
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Anatomists once referred to the hip bone as the innominate bone before adopting the term 'hip bone' more widely.
The report referred to several innominate committees that had never been formally named.
A note on using this word
Innominate survives mainly in specialized fields like anatomy (the innominate bone and innominate artery) and legal or formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
unnamednameless
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Words with an opposite meaning
named
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