Definitions

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

  • adjective Without a map or maps.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

map +‎ -less

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mapless.

Examples

  • She took photographs for him in the uncharted region of the Abruzzi and in the new, mapless towns of Africa, in rebuilt Germany and where motorways now changed for ever the old roads of England.

    William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

  • She goes on to describe this cohort as "the mapless generation."

    William Fisher: Life After Fifty? Listen Up Ladies! 2010

  • And maybe, just maybe – lack of sleep aside – coming to love this whole messed-up, mapless journey.

    Wherever You Go, There You Are | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Whatever its purpose, for one inhabitant the Bird sparks a long-dormant idea: to map the mapless city and liberate its masses with the power of knowledge.

    THUNDERER by Felix Gilman Tia Nevitt 2008

  • And maybe, just maybe – lack of sleep aside – coming to love this whole messed-up, mapless journey.

    Of Socrates and sleep | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • South of the reeds, Gordon disappeared into a primeval interior of naked animists and mapless swamps, where the connected world of Cairo and the coast lost all meaning.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • South of the reeds, Gordon disappeared into a primeval interior of naked animists and mapless swamps, where the connected world of Cairo and the coast lost all meaning.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • And maybe, just maybe - lack of sleep aside - coming to love this whole messed-up, mapless journey.

    Wherever You Go, There You Are 2007

  • South of the reeds, Gordon disappeared into a primeval interior of naked animists and mapless swamps, where the connected world of Cairo and the coast lost all meaning.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • And maybe, just maybe - lack of sleep aside - coming to love this whole messed-up, mapless journey.

    Of Socrates and sleep 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.