aimless adj

1 aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected]

2 continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]

English

Etymology

From aim + -less

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ˈeɪm.lɛs/

Adjective

1. Without aim, purpose, or direction.

   an aimless life

Derived terms

• aimlessly
• aimlessness

Translations

• Dutch: doelloos
• German: planlos, ziellos
• Telugu: అగమ్యగోచరము

amorphous, by the way, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, designless, desultory, deviative, digressive, disarticulated, discontinuous, discursive, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, empty, episodic, erratic, excursive, feckless, fitful, formless, frivolous, garbled, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inexplicable, insignificant, irregular, loose, maundering, meaningless, mindless, misshapen, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, null, of no use, orderless, phatic, planless, pointless, promiscuous, purportless, purposeless, rambling, random, roving, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, superfluous, systemless, unaccountable, unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unsignificant, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vagrant, vague, wandering, wanton, wayward