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Meanings of
aimless
in inglés
Aimlessly drifting.
afloat
adrift
rudderless
directionless
undirected
planless
Related terms
purposeless
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another.
floating
drifting
vagabond
vagrant
Related terms
unsettled
Synonyms
Examples for "
afloat
"
afloat
adrift
rudderless
directionless
undirected
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
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
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.
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
aimless
in inglés
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.
6
Joy does not seem to fit in with what is so
aimless
.
7
Apparently
aimless
alterations in form-arrangement will make art seem merely a game.
8
The course of the average man through life is an
aimless
zigzag.
9
And what a profitless occupation is the
aimless
collecting of heterogeneous books.
10
On the river, boats were drifting with the current, slow and
aimless
.
11
I wasted years in
aimless
travel, waiting for destiny to turn up.
12
To revert to some of the
aimless
work of this supposed forger.
13
Do not let there be the self-torment of
aimless
prognostications of evil.
14
It is
aimless
argument which comes only back to the starting point.
15
She had again dropped into the low uncertain voice of
aimless
senility.
16
So he went farther north instead, tracing
aimless
paths into unexplored territory.
Other examples for "aimless"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
aimless
Adjective
Frequent collocations
aimless life
aimless way
aimless fashion
aimless wandering
more aimless
More collocations
Aimless
through the time
Aimless
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common