aimless
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈeɪmləs/
- After losing his job, he felt completely aimless and unsure about his future.
- aimless wandering
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Watch on YouTubeSo maybe there's a bunch of human interaction that's just poetic, aimless nonsense.
- So maybe there's a bunch of human interaction that's just poetic, aimless nonsense.
- Third, you're going to be a laughingstock in a month and depressed and aimless and and goalless.
- They want a graphic part by the way, they do run around sprints, but it seems like it's aimless and that's the problem.
- It means that if you're focused on your narrow self, what you want now, you're going to become both aimless and anxious.
- And quite honestly, avoid doing if they want to stop being aimless and make their dreams a reality.
- I'm going to try not to just sit and like talk about aimless things.
- You know, I didn't want to think that stories about my parents and about my husband is aimless personal stuff.
- But Lovecraft writes about men's emotions, you know, aimless terror at this and that He doesn't Lovecraft doesn't handle women very well.
- Pure matter, he says, as a listless, aimless movement to and fro within itself.
Examples
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I've always wanted to live an aimless existence in Bucharest smoking cigarettes and scaring my neighbors with my hysterics.
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But she turned out to be stubborn, aimless, a mess.
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What he liked best then was to go out for an aimless walk.
Fiction book (1998) -
Both of us wandering in the dark, aimless, "wasting our potential."
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Yesterday, you said that you'd been feeling aimless.
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The students were often aimless and detached from their surroundings and peers, and completed their education reluctantly.
Academic text (2011) -
One night, feeling particularly aimless, I was attracted by the self-contained mobility of the passing buses.
Fiction book (1990) -
It was an aimless search, rife with conflict and self-abasement.
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Here and there, he glimpsed a solitary willow and the aimless wandering of a brook.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Christmas lights made the Nell resemble an all-night party cruiser out for an aimless celebration.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
19
5.6
Not having a clear direction or purpose
18
3.7
Moving without a fixed direction or plan
5
6.0
Having no clear aim or plan
4
7.5
Being without clear direction or a leader
4
5.3
Not done for any clear reason or useful result
3
7.2
Feeling unsure what to do and not busy
2
6.1
Not having a clear aim or plan in what you do
1
3.7
Not staying in one place or job for long
1
7.2
Having no plan or clear aim
1
8.1
Having no clear aim or purpose
Not having clear plans or goals
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Etymology
Aimless comes from the short word aim ('a goal' or 'target') plus the ending -less ('without'). So something aimless is like an arrow shot with no target, meaning it has no clear purpose or direction.