aimless

Without aim, purpose, or direction.

Adjective

  1. Without aim, purpose, or direction.
    • an aimless life
    • 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...

Origin

Etymology tree English aim Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English aimless From aim + -less.

Forms

more aimless most aimless

Derived

aimlessly aimlessness nonaimless