mapless

English

Etymology

From map +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæpləs/

Adjective

mapless (not comparable)

1. Without a map or maps.
   • 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Unmapped.
   • 1955, John Stewart Collis, The Moving Waters, page 86:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• ampless, Palmses, Sampsel, Samples, psalmes, samples