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roadless

roadless

2 5.1
An area with no roads
  • adjective
  • /ˈroʊdləs/
translation icon : sin caminos
  • In the roadless regions, people often rely on horses for transportation.
  • roadless area

Examples

  • There was little besides natural beauty to distinguish the roadless region until 1844, when diamonds were found.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many hikers enjoy exploring the vast, roadless wilderness of the national park.

  • Now I want to know about the roadless areas.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Air transportation is crucial to a large and relatively roadless country such as the Soviet Union.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Since this was a roadless area at that time, all materials had to be hoisted up from the lake.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The area earned that designation because it has more wild and roadless land per capita than anywhere else in the contiguous U.S.

    Blog text (28)
  • The roadless area inventory for Colorado excluded lands within ski area permitted boundaries.

    Blog text (34)
  • This finding probably reflects the widespread interest within the environmental community across the country in the establishment of roadless areas in national forests and the reclassification of the gray wolf.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The park itself, over eight million acres of protected wildlife, roadless and therefore one of the most remote regions in the United States, is home to the Arrigetch Mountains, whose granitic spires reach 6,000 feet in the air.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The government plans to protect several roadless areas to preserve wildlife habitats.

Synonyms

trackless
vsroadless
2 7.9

An area with no road or path and no sign of travel

focuses on absence of constructed routes rather than whether people visited
untracked
vsroadless
1 7.7

A place where there are no paths or roads and very few people have been

emphasizes only the lack of roads or pathways, not exploration status
pathless
vsroadless
1 7.7

A place with no clear ways to walk

refers to places without roads or constructed pathways, not only footpaths
unroaded
vsroadless
9.0

Land with no roads that cars or trucks cannot reach

is the general term for absence of roads without stressing access
unpathed
vsroadless
9.6

Land where people do not walk, often far from towns

denotes absence of roads specifically, not the state of being unexplored
untrod
vsroadless
  • Archaic
9.9

A place that no one has walked on

means the same lack of roads but in neutral, common language

How Accessible

accessible
280 3.9
remote
218 3.6
roadless
2 5.1
inaccessible
28 7.9

Surface Forms

roadless positive

Morphology

roadless = road (transparent) = road + less

The adjective is the regular negative form formed by adding productive suffix '-less' to the concrete noun 'road', yielding 'without roads', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Roadless is simply road + -less, and -less means 'without', just like in careless or hopeless. So roadless describes a place 'without' roads.