pathless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pathless
Example Sentences
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The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
His route was pathless, boggy and extremely difficult.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2021
Had it come out so automatically, without the usual torments, as if channeled not by the ghost of a dead American writer but by the ghost of my own failed and pathless younger self?
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018
For Coleridge, clouds were emblems of freedom, as in his ode to France—"Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause,/ Whose pathless march no mortal may control!"—or of poetic consciousness, as in "Dejection."
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2011
George was wrong yesterday in the clearing: Those were not the pathless woods; these are.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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