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TRACKLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trackless mean?
• TRACKLESS (adjective)
The adjective TRACKLESS has 2 senses:
1. having no tracks
2. lacking pathways
Familiarity information: TRACKLESS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no tracks
Context example:
the trackless snowy meadow
Antonym:
tracked (having tracks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking pathways
Synonyms:
pathless; roadless; trackless; untracked; untrod; untrodden
Context example:
roadless areas
Similar:
inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)
Context examples
When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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