mapless

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US/ˈmæpləs/

adjective

Without a map or maps.

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Meanings

adjectivemapless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a map or maps.

    According to Mercedes, this is a mapless system, instead using the data from the car's cameras and sensors to plot the road, making this easily scalable to any location.

    2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3
  2. not comparableUnmapped.

    It had seemed that the earth now offered nothing further to explorers; that the virgin forest, the untrodden desert, the mapless mountain, the unjourneyed sea were all things of the past[…]

    1955, John Stewart Collis, The Moving Waters, page 86

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
chartless

Origin

From map + -less.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Sampselampless
Cite this entry
APA

mapless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mapless

MLA

“mapless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mapless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mapless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mapless.

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