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aimless
adjective as in having no goal
Weak matches
- accidental
- any which way
- bits and pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- directionless
- drifting
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- goalless
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- irresolute
- objectless
- purposeless
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
Example Sentences
England's attack was aimless, bordering on clueless, on occasions.
Perhaps from habit, then, Penelope’s aimless walking led her to the hall outside the princess’s bedroom.
After an hour’s aimless wandering she knew that she and the Incorrigibles were lost, but all her attempts to ask for directions went unanswered in the din and rush of the crowd.
Beckett’s works defy easy exegesis, but as in many of his other plays, “Endgame” presents us with stylized images of the aimless burdens of existence, the isolation that can be little eased by companionship.
He was also notable as a recruiter of aimless youths who wanted to be tough guys; for them the Nazi Storm Trooper units were the place to cast off the shackles of civilized inhibitions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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