Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no compass; wanting guidance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no compass.
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- adjective Without a
compass for navigation.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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Is this the kind of gutless, soulless, morally compassless country you consider worthy of your big plans for rearming?
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Bush is compassless without his political pocket-calculator Rove, and potentially powerless if a jacked-off Cheney isolates him from the decision-making loop.
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He must have been out hunting, when he saw the remarkable sight of a solitary human loose in the wilds, begrimed, footsore, mapless and compassless.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.
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They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the night ineffable, and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi.
Eleonora 1917
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They must inevitably stray from the true direction, striking into that infernal circle which imprisons all things blind and all things compassless.
The Pools of Silence 1907
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One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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A sailless, wasteless, chartless, compassless, grubless old condemned tub that has been drifting helpless about the ocean for 4 months and a half, begging bread and water like any other tramp, flying
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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A sailless, wasteless, chartless, compassless, grubless old condemned tub that has been drifting helpless about the ocean for 4 months and a half, begging bread and water like any other tramp, flying
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872
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