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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
Still, those first six months with Ana helped me steady myself against the aimless floundering.
In many ways, this is how humans and other animals seem to learn, via aimless play.
The media frequently portray young people excluded from wage work as inactive, aimless and alienated from mainstream society.
Hours and hours of aimless walking in a mall is my idea of uber hell.
Heartbroken and aimless, Kaestel was arrested days later for burglarizing a store.
Brinsley got out of jail last July, and was desperate and aimless.
The rhinoceros, again looking pretty aimless and beaten down, was made—beautifully—of papier mache.
The title track (again, a cover) is an aimless Bo Diddley raveup.
Nick, once aimless with a deposition that would make Eeyore seem like Richard Simmons, is now happily dating Jess.
It reminds me a little of Raising Hope in that it centers on well-intentioned but aimless people who love each other a lot.
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
Beardsley was watching Arnold's fingers; there was something aimless and fretful as they pushed among the code-sealed tapes.
He closed the door, whistling gloomily, went over to the piano and struck a few aimless chords.
They say such thoughts are sinful, but annihilation is preferable to an aimless, loveless existence.
Always remember that a short anecdote well told is worth pages of aimless enumeration.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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