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road·less

(rōd′lĭs)

adj.

1. Not containing or crossed by any roads: roadless wilderness.

2. Forbidden by law to contain or be crossed by any roads or to be entered by any vehicles: tracts of land designated by the government as roadless areas.

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Adj.

roadless - lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"

pathless, untracked, untrod, untrodden, trackless

inaccessible, unaccessible - capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all

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Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.

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