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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 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

From BBC Oct. 15, 2025

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

They soon found that it was impossible to make their way along the crest of the Morgai, or anywhere along its higher levels, pathless as they were and scored with deep ghylls.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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