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pathless

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


ADJECTIVE
unbeaten
Synonyms


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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

Mountaineering groups said the dotted line crossed "potentially fatal" steep, rocky and pathless terrain, while a suggested walking route for a different mountain, An Teallach, would lead people over a cliff.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2021

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 trucked veered off the dirt road and into pathless wilderness.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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