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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compass +‎ -less

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Examples

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

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Is this the kind of gutless, soulless, morally compassless country you consider worthy of your big plans for rearming?

    the less friendly border 2005

  • Bush is compassless without his political pocket-calculator Rove, and potentially powerless if a jacked-off Cheney isolates him from the decision-making loop.

    Think Progress » Karl Rove 2005

  • 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

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

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • 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

  • 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

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

    The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

  • 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

  • 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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