1. lacking a harbor; having no shelter or refuge for ships
Usage: nautical; literary
2. offering no refuge, protection, or safe place
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The harborless coast made navigation treacherous for merchant vessels.
• Refugees found themselves in a harborless land with few allies.
• The storm-battered ship sought any harborless inlet for temporary refuge.
• After the war, many displaced families felt harborless and adrift.
• The harborless shores of the remote island offered little comfort to castaways.