Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a guide or means of guidance; wanting direction or a director.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without a guide.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without a guide.

Etymologies

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guide +‎ -less

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Examples

  • All entries must follow the above stated guideless or be disqualified.

    The First Annual Super-Sekrit Friends Writing Contest marshallpayne1 2009

  • Your mother is crazed, blind, guideless, stumbling with every step as she nears a cliff.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • Your mother is crazed, blind, guideless, stumbling with every step as she nears a cliff.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • Your mother is crazed, blind, guideless, stumbling with every step as she nears a cliff.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • Your mother is crazed, blind, guideless, stumbling with every step as she nears a cliff.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • At some point the mural will be destroyed, leaving Harry and the rest of the world guideless.

    Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005

  • Little knew they the rack of pain which had driven Lucy almost into fever, and brought her out, guideless and reckless, urged and drugged to the brink of frenzy.

    Villette 2003

  • Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless.

    Kim 2003

  • The chapandaz with the calf was using both hands to fight off his rivals, and his mount, in the dust and struggle, was running blind and guideless.

    Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982

  • She was thoroughly conscious that she had a will of her own and would like a chance to exercise it, still, she knew that in many cases without her stepmother she would be like a rudderless ship, a guideless traveller.

    Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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