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pathless

American  
[path-lis, pahth-] / ˈpæθ lɪs, ˈpɑθ- /

adjective

  1. trackless; untrodden.

    a pathless forest.


Etymology

Origin of pathless

First recorded in 1585–95; path + -less

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

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

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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