pathless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pathless
Example Sentences
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His route was pathless, boggy and extremely difficult.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2021
Mountaineering groups said the dotted line crossed "potentially fatal" steep, rocky and pathless terrain, while a suggested walking route for a different mountain, An Teallach, would lead people over a cliff.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2021
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
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
You know the path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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