trackless
/ˈtrækləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also, having had all tracks removed.
adj
Of a train, tram, etc.: not running on tracks.
Example Sentences
- "a trackless desert a trackless forest"
- "Associates! Solitude in trackless deserts, / Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,— / […] / Were to an honest heart endurable, / Rather than such associates."
- "In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness."
- ""You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet."
- "At about this point, Seivarden and her two Amaats had made it into a cramped and dim access corridor behind the governor's residence. It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless."
- "The two structures remain in a remarkable state of preservation, despite finding themselves adrift and trackless in the County Down countryside, after the closure of the station and the line in the 1950s."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtrækləs/
- British English: /ˈtrækləs/