Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no beaten way; untrodden: as, a pathless forest; a, pathless wilderness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable.
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- adjective Without a
path ortrail . - adjective figuratively
unexplored
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- adjective lacking pathways
Etymologies
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Examples
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All Central Africa and the great Southern or Antarctic continent was described as pathless desert -- "a land uninhabitable from the heat"; and the sources of the
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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Though these wilds may be called pathless still there were here and there narrow trails, which the moccasined foot of the savage had trodden for centuries.
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Instead, realising his perilous position, Montrose persuaded some shepherds of the Macdonald clan to lead the army to safety through the pathless wastes round Ben Nevis.
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You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history.
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The theory of navigation, which enabled the ships to travel unerringly their courses over the pathless ocean, was made clear to him.
Chapter 11 2010
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You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history.
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Horror born of the jungle gloom and death on the pathless sands.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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To expand on Joseph Campbell, we are reaching a "pathless path" as humanity, a process that each person should reach in his or her lifetimes.
Luis J. Rodriguez: What 2012 Means Luis J. Rodriguez 2012
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The pathless path isn't a straight line; it doesn't even lead from point A to point B.
Deepak Chopra: Walking the Pathless Path: Do We Need to Travel to Have a Spiritual Journey? 2010
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You have made the first step on the pathless path.
Deepak Chopra: Walking the Pathless Path: Do We Need to Travel to Have a Spiritual Journey? 2010
bilby commented on the word pathless
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."
- George Gordon Byron, 'Childe Harold', Canto iv, Verse 178.
August 9, 2008