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Definition of Pathless
1. Adjective. Lacking pathways. "Roadless areas"
Similar to: Inaccessible, Unaccessible
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
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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