pathless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pathless
Example Sentences
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The business of banking, Willing wrote, “was a pathless wilderness, ground but little known to this side of the Atlantick. . . . All was to us a mystery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The 40-year-old vet, who lives at Gladhouse Reservoir, Midlothian, had to navigate through extreme and often pathless terrain, continuing to run through the night.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
It may also leave you utterly lost, pathless and disoriented.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2016
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
No, Axel does not think he can find himself in pathless woods.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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