aimless
English
Etymology
From aim + -lessCategory:English terms suffixed with -less#AIMLESS.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aimless (comparative more aimless, superlative most aimless)Category:English lemmas#AIMLESSCategory:English adjectives#AIMLESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AIMLESSCategory:Pages with entries#AIMLESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#AIMLESS
- Without aim, purpose, or direction.
- an aimless lifeCategory:English terms with collocations#AIMLESS
- 1910, Albert Davis Mead, A method of lobster culture:
- In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages.Category:English terms with quotations#AIMLESS
Derived terms
Translations
without aim
Further reading
- “aimless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aimless”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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