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pathless

[path-lis, pahth-] / ˈpæθ lɪs, ˈpɑθ- /


ADJECTIVE
unbeaten
Synonyms


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The business of banking, Willing wrote, “was a pathless wilderness, ground but little known to this side of the Atlantick. . . . All was to us a mystery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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