Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not charted, or not provided with a chart; hence, without a guide or guidance: as, a chartless rover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a chart; having no guide.
- adjective Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
chart or charts. - adjective Not
mapped ;uncharted ;vague .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was chartless and rudderless, and he had no port to make, while drifting involved the least living, and it was living that hurt.
Chapter 41 2010
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There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate.
Chapter XV 2010
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Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, -- fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.
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Its hundreds of thousands of square miles were as dark and chartless as Darkest Africa.
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One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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They played it safe in the new, chartless brochure.
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And the latter, because of the looks and the airs of these two, felt suddenly as though he had been cast adrift upon a chartless sea in an open boat.
An American Tragedy 2004
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Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless.
Kim 2003
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In another, a man wakes to find himself on a chartless voyage, lost for years.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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