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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not charted, or not provided with a chart; hence, without a guide or guidance: as, a chartless rover.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Without a chart or charts.
  2. adj. Not mapped; uncharted; vague.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Without a chart; having no guide.
  2. adj. Not mapped; uncharted; vague.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated

Etymologies

  1. chart +‎ -less (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, -- fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.”

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS

  • “Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.”

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction

  • “One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.”

    CHAPTER XX

  • “He was chartless and rudderless, and he had no port to make, while drifting involved the least living, and it was living that hurt.”

    Chapter 41

  • “There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate.”

    Chapter XV

  • “Its hundreds of thousands of square miles were as dark and chartless as Darkest Africa.”

    The Gold Hunters of the North

  • “They played it safe in the new, chartless brochure.”

    The Washington Post: You're invited to help pay for the Bush library

  • “And the latter, because of the looks and the airs of these two, felt suddenly as though he had been cast adrift upon a chartless sea in an open boat.”

    An American Tragedy

  • “Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless.”

    Kim

  • “In another, a man wakes to find himself on a chartless voyage, lost for years.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Furnace Afloat

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