What does aimless mean?

Definitions for aimless
ˈeɪm lɪsaim·less

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirectedadjective

    aimlessly drifting

  2. aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrantadjective

    continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

    "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

Wiktionary

  1. aimlessadjective

    Without aim, purpose, or direction.

    an aimless life

ChatGPT

  1. aimless

    Aimless refers to something or someone lacking purpose, direction, or goals. It denotes an absence of a clear plan or objective, often resulting in random or pointless actions or decisions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Aimlessadjective

    without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life

Anagrams for aimless »

  1. Melissa

  2. seismal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of aimless in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of aimless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of aimless in a Sentence

  1. Henry David Thoreau:

    Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

  2. John Wooden:

    I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

  3. John W. Gardner:

    America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

  4. Cyril Connolly:

    The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

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