Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no way or path; pathless; trackless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no road or path; pathless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without a way.

Etymologies

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way +‎ -less

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Examples

  • InaneChessGod: well-it was "wayless" -- his diaryland name. he left a note claireclaire1121: ohhhh claireclaire1121: i like people knowing too, but i'm always not sure claireclaire1121: like i'm saying things, but then something can switch inside me so fast. and then it's out there.

    eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2002

  • For how this is, or where, or what, neither reason nor practice can come to know: and therefore our ensuing exercise always remains wayless, that is, without manner.

    The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

  • With this contemplation, there is bound up an exercise which is wayless, that is to say, a noughting of life; for, where we go forth out of ourselves into darkness and the abysmal Waylessness, there shines perpetually the simple ray of the Splendour of God, in which we are grounded, and which draws us out of ourselves into the superessence, and into the immersion of love.

    The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

  • And when this fierce way prevails, it masters and subdues all other ways and works; for it wills to be wayless, that is, without manner.

    The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

  • InaneChessGod: you remember "wayless" who told me the movie's name?

    eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2002

  • Emma decided she preferred the American wayless foppishness, more volume.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • Emma decided she preferred the American wayless foppishness, more volume.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • Emma decided she preferred the American wayless foppishness, more volume.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He felt fuddled and wayless, and the track gyred higher and higher.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • InaneChessGod: "dreamlife of angels"? claireclaire1121: its ok. but does it scare you ... wayless?

    eratoasis Diary Entry eratoasis 2002

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