aimless

From aim + -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪm.ləs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmləs

aimless (comparative more aimless, superlative most aimless)

1. Without aim, purpose, or direction.

   an aimless life

   • 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.

• aimlessly
• aimlessness

• “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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