pathless

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English path

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English pathless

From path + -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pathless (comparative more pathless, superlative most pathless)

1. Without a path or trail.
   • 1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC:

     It was an old and pathless forest, and you could not keep anything like a straight course in it.

2. (figurative) Unexplored.

   Synonyms: trackless, uncharted, unknown, virgin

Derived terms

• pathlessness

Translations

without a path

• Bulgarian: непроходим (bg) (neprohodim)
• Czech: neschůdný
• German: pfadlos, unwegsam (de), weglos
• Greek: αδιάβατος (el) (adiávatos)

Anagrams

• plashets