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Fameless vs Fateless - What's the difference?

fameless | fateless |

As adjectives the difference between fameless and fateless

is that fameless is (chiefly|obsolete) without fame while fateless is devoid of fate.

fameless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (chiefly, obsolete) Without fame.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1834, author=, title=The Pilgrims Of The Rhine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Sluggish are the spirits and base the lot of the men I am ordained to lead through a dull life to a fameless grave. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=William Crosbie Hunter, title=Evening Round Up, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison hearts and plant discontent. }}

    Antonyms

    * famed * famous

    Anagrams

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    fateless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Devoid of fate.
  • * 1946 , Hermann Broch, The death of Virgil (page 224)
    • Coming out of the fateless , leading into the fateless, with hardly anything assigned to chance, the peasant's path runs on the very brink of destiny and on the brink of sleep.