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US
/ˈeɪmɫəs/
]
[ UK /ˈeɪmləs/ ]
[ UK /ˈeɪmləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- aimlessly drifting
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continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
vagrant hippies of the sixties
the floating population
a drifting double-dealer
How To Use aimless In A Sentence
- Daughtry cried, at sight of the whale flurrying the water with aimless, gigantic splashings. CHAPTER XV
- It was a book which fulfilled his desire to discover a place seldom visited, and was also to influence this once-aimless student to eventually find a direction, and become a travel writer.
- Woodrow and Aiden Tyler Dawson are childhood friends whose aimlessness in day-to-day life is matched only by their passion for building flame-spewing machinery to "prepare for the apocalypse. Farihah Zaman: SXSW 2011 Dispatch Two: Coming of Age to a Theater Near You
- Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
- Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
- For a long time, what does happen seems almost aimless: scenic walks, music, casual flirtations.
- Chapters that lack such profundity seem aimless, padding perhaps. Times, Sunday Times
- Being able to wander around aimlessly is the best way to see things that you'd normally never see, new bands.
- The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
- Everyone who's normal should flop around their homes aimlessly without a stitch of clothing on at least once a month.