PATHLESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pathless mean? 

• PATHLESS (adjective)
  The adjective PATHLESS has 1 sense:

1. lacking pathways

  Familiarity information: PATHLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATHLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking pathways

Synonyms:

pathless; roadless; trackless; untracked; untrod; untrodden

Context example:

roadless areas

Similar:

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)

 Context examples 

Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The theory of navigation, which enabled the ships to travel unerringly their courses over the pathless ocean, was made clear to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)