trackless

Examples

• All

• Meeting during the Venus transit of 1761, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon spent four years in America, running over 300 miles of boundary lines, often through trackless wilderness.

  Academic text (2006)

• The snow was trackless and deep, making the journey difficult.

• The wide game trail they followed was trackless after the rains.

  Fiction book (1994)

• A trackless jungle just waiting to be explored.

  Mary Poppins (1964)

• Below, there was the trackless ocean, a Sahara of water.

  Fiction book (2002)

• This was to be a long one, into the trackless wilderness, as Cappie put it.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The alarm woke me from an unpleasant dream in which I wandered through a trackless forest, trying to find a path out.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The terrain out thataway was mostly trackless scrub and rough going besides.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Beyond the hills were more hills, and then the flat expanse of the Mojave Desert, trackless and vast.

  Fiction book (1994)

• 35 hours out of New York, he roars across Siberia's trackless wastes.

  The Aviator (2004)

Synonyms

R

roadless

vstrackless

2 5.1

An area with no roads

is broader, covering absence of all paths and lack of travel

U

untraveled

vstrackless

• US

1 6.3

A path or area that no one has visited

is narrower by adding the idea of lacking routes or markings

U

untracked

vstrackless

1 7.7

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

adds that the area is also not traveled by people or vehicles

P

pathless

vstrackless

1 7.7

A place with no clear ways to walk

includes that and also that people or vehicles do not travel there

U

untrodden

vstrackless

1 8.8

Land or paths that have not been walked on

is more general, covering lack of roads, paths, or travel

T

trailless

vstrackless

6.8

To move without leaving marks or signs behind

refers more to the absence of routes and travel rather than traces

U

untrailed

vstrackless

8.2

In a place with no path or track for walking

focuses on lacking routes and also on not being used by people or vehicles

U

unroaded

vstrackless

9.0

Land with no roads that cars or trucks cannot reach

covers that idea but also absence of smaller paths and travel

U

untraversed

vstrackless

9.8

A place people have not gone through or explored

adds the sense of also lacking paths, tracks, or roads

U

untrod

vstrackless

• Archaic

9.9

A place that no one has walked on

is the neutral descriptive term used for places without routes or travel

T

treadless

vstrackless

6.5

An area with no footprints that people have not walked on

adds absence of constructed routes and absence of travel by vehicles

U

unpathed

vstrackless

9.6

Land where people do not walk, often far from towns

is more general, stressing both missing routes and lack of travel

U

untrafficked

vstrackless

7.6

Free from cars and people

includes that but also highlights absence of paths, tracks, or roads

Antonyms

T

tracked

4.9

Having long connected bands like a tank or marks left by feet and wheels

M

marked

2.7

Clearly noticeable because of a special mark

Compounds

T

trackless trolley

• US

6.7

A bus that uses electricity from wires above the street and does not run on tracks

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology