trackless

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9
Pronunciation
/ˈtrækləs/

Definition of trackless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also, having had all tracks removed.
    “a trackless desert    a trackless forest”
    “Associates! Solitude in trackless deserts, / Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,— / […] / Were to an honest heart endurable, / Rather than such associates.”
    “In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness.”
    “"You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.”
    “At about this point, Seivarden and her two Amaats had made it into a cramped and dim access corridor behind the governor's residence. It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless.”
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adj

  1. Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also, having had all tracks removed.
    “a trackless desert    a trackless forest”
    “Associates! Solitude in trackless deserts, / Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,— / […] / Were to an honest heart endurable, / Rather than such associates.”
    “In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness.”
    “"You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.”
    “At about this point, Seivarden and her two Amaats had made it into a cramped and dim access corridor behind the governor's residence. It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless.”
  2. (literary)Leaving no track or trace when moving; also, not following any track or path.
    “What was it that I loved so well about my childhood's home? / It was the wide and wave-lashed shore, the black rocks crowned with foam! / It was the sea-gull's flapping wing, all trackless in its flight, / Its screaming note, that welcomed on the fierce and stormy night!”
  3. Of a train, tram, etc.: not running on tracks.
    “a trackless trolley”

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Etymology

From track (noun) + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking or without something’).

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