pathless
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˈpæθləs/
:
sin caminos
- The hikers decided to explore the pathless forest, where no trails could be seen.
- pathless woods
Examples
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It is easier to see the grand vistas in our minds than to think of turning our feet off the path and, ducking branches and skirting poison ivy, heading into a pathless patch of deer-gnawed young oak.
Academic text (2001) -
The scene seems pathless, static in its brilliance.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods...
Fiction book (1995) -
Life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles.
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Looking about him at the trees, at a woods pathless to his eyes—where, indeed, was he?
Fiction book (1992) -
Rayless, and pathless... the icy earth swung blind and black in the moonless air.
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Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, Death is abroad, and the children play.
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From the beginning, we have had the intimate collaboration of the Mbuti, who have led us with speed and assurance across large tracts of pathless forest and, with equal confidence, have inched us through the undergrowth.
Academic text (1992) -
"Wishing to preserve them both, Dancing Ripple had set out through the pathless forest to Yamacraw, arriving just in time to avert hostilities and to secure a friendly reception.
Academic text (2015) -
And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone.
Blog text (4)
Synonyms
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7.9
An area with no road or path and no sign of travel
1
6.3
A path or area that no one has visited
1
7.7
A place where there are no paths or roads and very few people have been
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8.8
Land or paths that have not been walked on
An area with no paths or tracks to follow
Land where people do not walk, often far from towns
A place that no one has walked on
A place people have not gone through or explored
An area with no footprints that people have not walked on
Antonyms
How Walkable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pathless is made from path (a way to walk) and the ending -less meaning 'without', so it literally means 'without a path' and that is why we use it for places with no tracks or walkable ways.