Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no object; purposeless; aimless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no object; purposeless.

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  • adjective Without a purpose

Etymologies

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object +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....

    Therese Borchard: 6 Steps To Quiet The Mind 2010

  • The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....

    6 Steps To Quiet The Mind 2010

  • The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....

    Therese Borchard: 6 Steps To Quiet The Mind 2009

  • But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.

    Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010

  • But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.

    Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010

  • Zen meditation is offered as the radical practice of "objectless meditation," a path of relinquishing all things, including the self.

    Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell: Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell 2011

  • But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.

    Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010

  • But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.

    Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010

  • "To come out into an objectless view/Which is the true aim of all poetry," is a definition I use in my poems.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010

  • But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.

    Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010

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