roadless
2
5.1
- adjective
- /ˈroʊdləs/
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- In the roadless regions, people often rely on horses for transportation.
- roadless area
Examples
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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.
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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
2
7.9
An area with no road or path and no sign of travel
1
7.7
A place where there are no paths or roads and very few people have been
1
7.7
A place with no clear ways to walk
Land with no roads that cars or trucks cannot reach
Land where people do not walk, often far from towns
A place that no one has walked on
How Accessible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roadless is simply road + -less, and -less means 'without', just like in careless or hopeless. So roadless describes a place 'without' roads.