Definition of Pathless

1. Adjective. Lacking pathways. "Roadless areas"


Definition of Pathless

1. a. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.

Definition of Pathless

1. Adjective. Without a path or trail. ¹

2. Adjective. (figurative) unexplored ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pathless

1. having no path [adj]

Medical Definition of Pathless

1. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. "Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way." (Milton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathless

patheticness
pathetics
pathetique
pathetisad
pathetism
pathfinder
pathfinder prospectus
pathfinders
pathfinding
pathfindings
pathics
pathing
pathlength
pathlengths
pathless (current term)
pathlessness
pathlessnesses
pathlike
pathline
pathlines
pathmaker
pathmakers
pathname
pathnames
patho-
pathoadaptation
pathoadaptations
pathoamine
pathobiological

Literary usage of Pathless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And still the battle raged ; the iron clang Rose through the pathless desert of the air And smote against the brazen floor of heaven. ..."

2. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1869)
"THERE 13 A PLEASURE IN THE pathless WOOD." How delightful are the mind's wanderings through the magnificent worka of Deity, halting at times to take a ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Set me where, on «ome pathless plain, The rizi. ' <t>y Africans complain. .... pathless ..."

4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... in pathless woods, over hills and mountains, through large cane swamps, full of grape-vines and briars, over broad lakes, rapid rivers and deep creeks; ..."

5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with ..."

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