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Definition of Aimless
1. Adjective. Aimlessly drifting.
Similar to: Purposeless
Derivative terms: Aimlessness
2. Adjective. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Similar to: Unsettled
Derivative terms: Aimlessness, Vagabond, Vagabond, Vagrancy, Vagrant
Definition of Aimless
1. a. Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.
Definition of Aimless
1. Adjective. Without aim, purpose, or direction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aimless
1. lacking direction or purpose [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aimless
Literary usage of Aimless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1897)
"... Under French officers and French priests, the war continued to be conducted
with cruelty as aimless as it was brutal. Expeditions like those from ..."
2. Philosophy of Rhetoric: By John Bascom by John Bascom (1882)
"No composition is aimless, not even soliloquy. If it were aimless, there could
be no criticism, no excellence, no rules guiding its structure, ..."
3. Libraries and Readers by William Eaton Foster (1883)
"CORRECTION OF aimless READING.* DOUBTLESS one of the chief perils of a beginner
in the use of a library, lies in acquiring a habit of aimless and ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... will not easily admit of any great proficiency in what is the aimless, though
beautiful and improving pursuit of a nation's childhood. ..."
5. Hymns by Frederick William Faber (1871)
"Fever, and fret, and aimless stir, And disappointed strife, All chafing unsuccessful
things, Make up the sura of life. 2. ..."
6. Sentence and Theme: Composition for the First Year of High School by Charles Henshaw Ward (1917)
"There are cases in which sentences cannot be understood because nouns have not
been repeated. 100. But aimless repetition spoils a theme. ..."
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