guide
verb (used with object)
to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person.
guideless
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a word derived from
guide.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
I wondered if my case was the case of many men, whether in former ages, too, men had been so guideless, so uncharted, so haphazard in their journey into life.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Elsewhere the host was in retreat; We were a guideless lost brigade.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
To awake, and set his shield aloft by the Roncalic Fields again, with: Ho, every one that is suffering wrong;—or that has strayed guideless, devil-ward, and done wrong, which is far fataler!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
