pathless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pathless
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
Had it come out so automatically, without the usual torments, as if channeled not by the ghost of a dead American writer but by the ghost of my own failed and pathless younger self?
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018
Clearly, stalking delivers them the present moment—the lawless wild greenery and pathless reality of the Zone—that makes them, if only for a short while, masters of their destinies.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2014
They were far beyond the borders of the Bree-land, out in the pathless wilderness, and drawing near to the Midgewater Marshes.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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