Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Devoid of direction or purpose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without aim; purposeless.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without aim or purpose.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. aimlessly drifting
- adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Etymologies
- aim + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(Although it must be said the Madrassas provide some regular education and literacy where no other option is available, they do community work that is non-religious ... and they take in aimless troubled youth.)”
“For several seconds they stared at the blithesome youth, in a manner scarcely to be called aimless, since their looks were aimed with deadly accuracy at him, but in general, with the exception of Hicks, those in the room resembled vastly some of the celebrated Madame Tussaud's wax-works in London.”
“It's not good or bad; it's bland and aimless, which is worse.”
“Blair's remarks that the East is "aimless" without something like Christianity are clinically insane and deeply offensive -- and absurd coming from the former leader of what was once the largest colonial empire on Earth.”
“A typical argument for a song like this would be to say it's "aimless," but I think that misses the point.”
“A study just came out that shows a direct correlation with "aimless" time surfing during class and lower grades.”
“In a kind of aimless rage she went home, wondering how she should reach Rita Sohlberg first and alone.”
“PRESLEY: I think it sort of happened all at a good period where I had just gone through my second divorce and was kind of aimless and somebody -- Foster -- David Foster came.”
“In a kind of aimless rage she went home, wondering how she should reach Rita”
“She described him as "a strange growth named Timmins, that has the Lazy 8 Ranch over on the next creek and wears kind of aimless whiskers all over his face till you'd think he had a gas mask on.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aimless’.
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Genes
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Phrases from British novels, between ...
lust legs and lip..., lawner, clettering, cletter, big business, pointless, feckless, aimless, graceless, something nasty i..., cold comfort, mollock and 61 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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BrainyBabe One of the cows kept at ''Cold Comfort Farm'', the classic satire by Stella Gibbons. Big Business, the bull, services her and her companions Graceless, Pointless, and Feckless. Dec 22, 2008