Pathless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a path or trail.

    "It was an old and pathless forest, and you could not keep anything like a straight course in it."

  2. 2
    Unexplored. figuratively
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking pathways wordnet

Example

More examples

""Thither we sailed, when, rising with the wave, / Orion dashed us on the shoals, the prey / of wanton winds, and mastering billows drave / our vessels on the pathless rocks astray. / We few have floated to your shore.""

Etymology

From path + -less.

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