What's the difference between pathless and trackless?
Pathless
Definition:
(a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
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Trackless
Definition:
(a.) Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wrangell St Elias Wilderness, Alaska If all wildernesses require a degree of knowledge and experience, this one needs rather more to venture into its vast 15,000 square miles of almost trackless mountain and tundra.
(2) Twombly for his part thrusts handfuls of paint in your face only to invite you into a mist, a dissolve, a trackless indeterminacy.
(3) Perhaps the Aboriginal groups, over countless generations navigating the trackless desert of western Australia, were forced by their environment to develop an aptitude for direction finding that Zairians (whose ecological situation more closely resembles that of Europeans) have not.