Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not charted, or not provided with a chart; hence, without a guide or guidance: as, a chartless rover.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without a chart; having no guide.
- adj. Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated
Etymologies
- 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.”
“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.”
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“One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.”
“He was chartless and rudderless, and he had no port to make, while drifting involved the least living, and it was living that hurt.”
“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.”
“Its hundreds of thousands of square miles were as dark and chartless as Darkest Africa.”
“They played it safe in the new, chartless brochure.”
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“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.”
“Tonight they lay out somewhere below him, chartless, foodless, tentless, gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guideless.”
“In another, a man wakes to find himself on a chartless voyage, lost for years.”
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