Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking direction or purpose.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without aim; purposeless.

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

  • adjective Without aim or purpose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without aim, purpose, or direction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective aimlessly drifting
  • adjective continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

Etymologies

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aim +‎ -less

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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.)

    Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives 2006

  • 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.

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • It's not good or bad; it's bland and aimless, which is worse.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • 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.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • A typical argument for a song like this would be to say it's "aimless," but I think that misses the point.

    The Paper and the Empty Box (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • A study just came out that shows a direct correlation with "aimless" time surfing during class and lower grades.

    Laptop Campus: Bane or Boone? 2006

  • A study just came out that shows a direct correlation with "aimless" time surfing during class and lower grades.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • In a kind of aimless rage she went home, wondering how she should reach Rita Sohlberg first and alone.

    The Titan 2004

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript May 6, 2003 2003

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript May 11, 2003 2003

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  • 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.

    December 23, 2008