invious

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/ˈɪnviəs/

adjective

untrodden

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveinvious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletepoeticuntrodden

    If nothing can oppugne love, And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?

    1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
  2. not comparableobsoletepoeticimpassable

Origin

  1. Latininvius
  2. Englishinvious

From Latin invius, from in- (“not”) + via (“way”).

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