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mapless

  • a word derived from map.
    map
    noun
    a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation.

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A sketchy, mapless framework is not a plan.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2022

Last year, he explained to The Paris Review that “Periplum,” his first book, was named after “an ancient form of navigation, a kind of mapless way of moving through space, of reckoning.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 17, 2016

He is the educated Slav of all time; he to a large extent explains mapless Poland, and the political inefficiency of the great empire of Russia.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

To-morrow we head off to the northeast, and into the mapless country.

From The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Fred J. Arting

He was a failure, and one day he died.   Across the border of the mapless landHe found himself among a sad-eyed bandOf disappointed souls; they, too, had triedAnd missed their purpose. 

From Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox