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chartless

American  
[chahrt-lis] / ˈtʃɑrt lɪs /

adjective

  1. uncharted or unknown.

    chartless regions of space.


chartless British  
/ ˈtʃɑːtlɪs /

adjective

  1. not mapped; uncharted

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of chartless

First recorded in 1800–10; chart + -less

Example Sentences

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And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She found herself floating about in a chartless sea of conjectures, of suspicions....

From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Too much of college teaching is a blind groping, chartless and without compass.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

But how about those deeper-draft, chartless sailing craft?

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins

To-night they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless—except for Hurree Babu, guideless.

From Kim by Rudyard Kipling

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