waylessadj.

Brit.

/ˈweɪlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈweɪlᵻs/

Forms: see way n.¹ and -less suffix; also early Old English welise (Kentish, weak declension, neuter, transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: way n.¹, -less suffix.

Etymology: < way n.¹ + -less suffix. Compare Middle High German wegelōs without a path, without guidance (German weglos).In form welise apparently a scribal error for wilese (compare wig at way n.¹ and int.¹ Forms and wiferend at wayferend n. Forms). In Old English the word is also attested in the sense ‘straying off the (right) path, leading into error’.

Chiefly poetic or literary.

1. Having no roads, track, or paths for travelling along. Also: †difficult to access or pass through (obsolete).In quot. OE¹ as part of a gloss of classical Latin aviārium aviary n. in the poetic sense ‘haunt of wild birds’ (Virgil Georgics 2. 430) after the erroneous derivation from ā viā out of the way, suggested by Isidore ( Origines 14. 8. 32).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > trackless, pathless

waylessOE

gatelessc1175

pathless1596

untracked1603

untracted1610

unpatheda1616

invious1622

trailless1884

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > provided with roads > not

waylessOE

unwayed1382

roadless1755

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 87 Auiaria, weglæse beara, uel secreta nemora.

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 117 Inuium, ungefere uel wegleas pæþ.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 219 Man..fel..out of hous in to maskynge and wayles contray [L. de domo ad devium].

a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xiv. 15 The loond..shal be vnwaied, or wayles.

1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. f. 22^v Not once, nor twise, but sundrie sithes the Goddesse Venus lay With Adon in the waylesse woods hir pleasures to assay.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 27 As though the peopled Townes had way-less Deserts been.

1757 W. Thompson Gondibert & Birtha in Poems on Several Occasions iii. i. 384 While I consume my solitary Days In some forsaken Cave, or wayless Wild.

1813 D. Bryan Adventures of Daniel Boone v. in Mountain Muse 152 The dispersion through the wayless wilds, Of their affrighted Cattle, which had fled, With force impetuous.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 81 From Saint-Lambert's upland, chapel-crowned, The Prussian squadrons loomed. Then to the wayless wet gray ground he leapt.

1901 ‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 151 The bush which from his account was wide-spreading and wayless.

2003 B. Gruendler tr. Ibn Al-Rūmī in B. Gruendler Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry viii. 143 A noble man on a noble camel In a wayless desert in a starless night.

2. Having no direction or path to follow; esp. lacking direction or purpose; directionless, drifting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving without fixed course

vaganta1382

scatteringc1450

stragglinga1560

wandering1590

undirecteda1599

wayless1605

planetary1607

rambling?1609

exorbitant1613

exorbitating1632

random1655

unconducteda1677

devious1735

truant1791

wild1810

erratic1841

directionless1860

scrolloping1923

the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adjective] > unintentional or involuntary > aimless

purposeless1552

aimless1583

wayless1605

shapelessa1616

designless1649

scopeless1666

unmeaning1680

objectless1797

motiveless1798

purportless1802

driftless1806

adrift1818

unpurpose-like1825

unpurposed1827

goalless1828

nothingarian1859

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 158 If without wings we flie..Through hundred sundrie way-lesse wayes adrest.

1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 33 With Wonders new my Spirits range possest, And wandring waylesse in a maze them rest.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 462 He was also their courteous companion in all their wayless ways.

1741 London Mag. Mar. 146/2 The silver moon, to wayless travelers dear, Withdrew her frighten'd head.

1794 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 257/1 The wayless traveller, who steers his course Through Afric's or Arabia's desert plains.

1821 R. S. Hawker Cornish Ballads (1904) 258 Joys such as these, Visions of wayless fancy, were the fire That burnt within me.

1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale I. 511 The two orphan boys, Sigmund and his cousin, are wandering in the snow upon the Dofrafells, weary and wayless.

1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 21 A withered leaf, wafted on in the street, Like a wayless spectre, sighed.

1972 Philos. East & West 22 104 The pathless path and the wayless ‘way’ admit no entities going anywhere.

2003 Classical Philol. 98 303 The path laid out by the Pillars of Aea eventually brings the Argonauts to their wayless wandering in Libya.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wayless
释义	waylessadj. Brit. /ˈweɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈweɪlᵻs/ Forms: see way n.¹ and -less suffix; also early Old English welise (Kentish, weak declension, neuter, transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: way n.¹, -less suffix. Etymology: < way n.¹ + -less suffix. Compare Middle High German wegelōs without a path, without guidance (German weglos).In form welise apparently a scribal error for wilese (compare wig at way n.¹ and int.¹ Forms and wiferend at wayferend n. Forms). In Old English the word is also attested in the sense ‘straying off the (right) path, leading into error’. Chiefly poetic or literary. 1. Having no roads, track, or paths for travelling along. Also: †difficult to access or pass through (obsolete).In quot. OE¹ as part of a gloss of classical Latin aviārium aviary n. in the poetic sense ‘haunt of wild birds’ (Virgil Georgics 2. 430) after the erroneous derivation from ā viā out of the way, suggested by Isidore ( Origines 14. 8. 32). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > trackless, pathless waylessOE gatelessc1175 pathless1596 untracked1603 untracted1610 unpatheda1616 invious1622 trailless1884 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > provided with roads > not waylessOE unwayed1382 roadless1755 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 87 Auiaria, weglæse beara, uel secreta nemora. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 117 Inuium, ungefere uel wegleas pæþ. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 219 Man..fel..out of hous in to maskynge and wayles contray [L. de domo ad devium]. a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xiv. 15 The loond..shal be vnwaied, or wayles. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. f. 22^v Not once, nor twise, but sundrie sithes the Goddesse Venus lay With Adon in the waylesse woods hir pleasures to assay. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 27 As though the peopled Townes had way-less Deserts been. 1757 W. Thompson Gondibert & Birtha in Poems on Several Occasions iii. i. 384 While I consume my solitary Days In some forsaken Cave, or wayless Wild. 1813 D. Bryan Adventures of Daniel Boone v. in Mountain Muse 152 The dispersion through the wayless wilds, Of their affrighted Cattle, which had fled, With force impetuous. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 81 From Saint-Lambert's upland, chapel-crowned, The Prussian squadrons loomed. Then to the wayless wet gray ground he leapt. 1901 ‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 151 The bush which from his account was wide-spreading and wayless. 2003 B. Gruendler tr. Ibn Al-Rūmī in B. Gruendler Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry viii. 143 A noble man on a noble camel In a wayless desert in a starless night. 2. Having no direction or path to follow; esp. lacking direction or purpose; directionless, drifting. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving without fixed course vaganta1382 scatteringc1450 stragglinga1560 wandering1590 undirecteda1599 wayless1605 planetary1607 rambling?1609 exorbitant1613 exorbitating1632 random1655 unconducteda1677 devious1735 truant1791 wild1810 erratic1841 directionless1860 scrolloping1923 the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adjective] > unintentional or involuntary > aimless purposeless1552 aimless1583 wayless1605 shapelessa1616 designless1649 scopeless1666 unmeaning1680 objectless1797 motiveless1798 purportless1802 driftless1806 adrift1818 unpurpose-like1825 unpurposed1827 goalless1828 nothingarian1859 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 158 If without wings we flie..Through hundred sundrie way-lesse wayes adrest. 1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 33 With Wonders new my Spirits range possest, And wandring waylesse in a maze them rest. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 462 He was also their courteous companion in all their wayless ways. 1741 London Mag. Mar. 146/2 The silver moon, to wayless travelers dear, Withdrew her frighten'd head. 1794 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 257/1 The wayless traveller, who steers his course Through Afric's or Arabia's desert plains. 1821 R. S. Hawker Cornish Ballads (1904) 258 Joys such as these, Visions of wayless fancy, were the fire That burnt within me. 1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale I. 511 The two orphan boys, Sigmund and his cousin, are wandering in the snow upon the Dofrafells, weary and wayless. 1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 21 A withered leaf, wafted on in the street, Like a wayless spectre, sighed. 1972 Philos. East & West 22 104 The pathless path and the wayless ‘way’ admit no entities going anywhere. 2003 Classical Philol. 98 303 The path laid out by the Pillars of Aea eventually brings the Argonauts to their wayless wandering in Libya. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.OE
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