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Meanings of directionless in English
Synonyms
Examples for "afloat"
Examples for "afloat"
1
Both changed the services they offered to stay afloat during the crisis.
2
That matters, because the periphery governments need Germany's support to stay afloat.
3
The inflow of foreign funds would help keep the local currency afloat.
4
Businesses will need a lot of support to recover and stay afloat.
5
The second ship was still afloat, but listing badly to the right.
1
The result leaves both sides two points adrift of the top four.
2
Roche is now four minutes and six seconds adrift of Nibali's lead.
3
Brescia are currently 18th in Serie A, one point adrift of safety.
4
Constant turnover in the director's office had set the agency far adrift.
5
I've been left adrift among civilians a time or two myself, Lieutenant.
1
My quest was not aimless and fortuitous; it had a definite method.
2
Criminal justice alone is expected to roll along, aimless and largely directionless.
3
The two are intimately related: passionless politics dribble away into aimless drift.
4
We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.
5
It's a tedious mission that characterizes the aimless nature of Daybreak's storytelling.
1
But South Africa, still the major player in the region, was rudderless.
2
The Tories are 'tired, divided and rudderless' and no longer deserve support.
3
What they cannot cope with is uncertainty; and so they were rudderless.
4
It seemed both times we were rudderless, Warriors coach Steve Kerr observed.
5
Her mind was adrift, rudderless behind eyes that saw some unspeakable horror.
1
His reading was by fits and starts, undirected to any particular science.
2
The young people are overborne by their own undirected and misguided energies.
3
Unrestrained and undirected social fragmentation leads to conflict, destruction, perhaps to chaos.
4
She exuded at every pore the pathos of her young undirected force.
5
And in the undirected, disorderly situation that has developed, naysayers flourish.
1
But the planless system which so many follow never gives satisfactory results.
2
The lack of centralized control in industry allows of planless production.
3
In the meantime his life remained run down, planless, and empty and idle.
4
Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on an attic floor.
5
She made me feel more planless and incidental than ever.
Usage of directionless in English
1
Criminal justice alone is expected to roll along, aimless and largely directionless.
2
According to traders, it was another directionless day, with volumes very light.
3
The sound of it echoed all around, rendering it huge and directionless.
4
His pockets still empty, Hao An wanders down a nameless street, directionless.
5
That has translated to increased volatility and an overall directionless market.
6
No matter how directionless a step seems when taken, it is always forward.'
7
Ivan is disdainful of the directionless hedonism of the average, unfocussed American teen-ager.
8
The once polished army of the Third Reich is now directionless.
9
They stared at him blankly, dead-eyed and directionless, but aware, too.
10
Worse, this edgy and directionless effort made them look like Premier Division misfits.
11
Friendless, directionless and panicking, she doubles down on a losing bet.
12
But the performances are all great; they collectively create a directionless storm-cloud of disquiet.
13
Mostly what his words conveyed was how directionless our family had been, how lost.
14
Millions felt directionless after the attacks, and wondered what they could do to help.
15
I had heard of Strays before, of course, but they were scavengers, directionless wanderers.
16
I was just a directionless Rutgers University undergraduate at the time I started writing.
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