trackless
Adjective

trackless

  1. Not having tracks or paths; untrodden.
    • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved (novel)
      "You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.
    • 2015, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy
      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.
  2. Not following a track.
    • What was it that I loved so well about my childhood's home? / It was the wide and wave-lashed shore, the black rocks crowned with foam! / It was the sea-gull's flapping wing, all trackless in its flight, / Its screaming note, that welcomed on the fierce and stormy night!
  3. (of a train etc.) Not running on tracks.
    trackless trolley
Translations
  • Spanish: destraciado, destraciada



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