The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pathless \Path"less\, a. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from path + -less.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Without a path or trail. 2 (context figurative English) unexplored
WordNet
Usage examples of "pathless".
I had read of the soothing companionship of the forest, the pleasure of the pathless woods.
Yoshimoto was deriding his enemy in his headquarters, Nobunaga was charging up the pathless slopes of Taishigadake.
Nobunaga followed the pathless valleys and ravines and rode all night toward Kuchikidani.
The black hair had seemed at last a forest, immeasurable, pathless and enchanted, luring him to a fatal adventure .
But scouts had threaded the pathless desert that lay between, and, from behind the huge tree-trunks, perceived the Indians assembling at the summons of the bell.
The woods beyond looked pathless and showed fallen oaks, with redbuds and dogwoods growing beneath.
So spake our Morning Star, then in his rise, And, looking round, on every side beheld A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
Beni-Mora, men from the near oasis, and also many of those desert wanderers who drift in daily out of the sands to the centres of buying and selling, barter their goods for the goods of the South, or sell their loads of dates for money, and, having enjoyed the dissipation of the cafes and of the dancing-houses, drift away again into the pathless wastes which are their home.
Long she journeyed through the pathless ocean, with no friends to cheer her, save the white sea-birds who went sweeping by, and only stayed to dip their wide wings at her side, and then flew silently away.
So we started, Hans hanging to my stirrup and guiding me, for I knew well enough that although he had never travelled this road, his instinct for locality would not betray a coloured man, who can find his way across the pathless veld as surely as a buck or a bird of the air.
The ground seemed leveled by the passing feet of millions, hard as an ancient roadbed among its pathless labyrinth of crowding trees.
Swearing, he scrambled up a steep and pathless slope until he reached the point where the building contours coincided with the land again, and of course, there it was.
To the strong wind they bend, showing the silver of their sombre little tassels as fish show the silver of their sides turning in the pathless sea.
The woods beyond looked pathless and showed fallen oaks, with redbuds and dogwoods growing beneath.
SEMICHORUS I OF THE PITIES Snows incarnadined were thine, O Eylau, field of the wide white spaces, And frozen lakes, and frozen limbs, and blood iced hard as it left the veins: Steel-cased squadrons swathed in cloud-drift, plunging to doom through pathless places, And forty thousand dead and near dead, strewing the early-lighted plains.