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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aimless \Aim"less\, adjective Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- {Aim"less*ly}, adverb -- {Aim"less*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aimless
adjective
1: aimlessly drifting [syn: {adrift(p)}, {afloat(p)}, {directionless}, {planless}, {rudderless}, {undirected}]
2: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: {drifting}, {floating}, {vagabond}, {vagrant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "aimless": amorphous, by the way, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, designless, desultory, deviative, digressive, disarticulated, discontinuous, discursive, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, empty, episodic, erratic, excursive, feckless, fitful, formless, frivolous, garbled, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inexplicable, insignificant, irregular, loose, maundering, meaningless, mindless, misshapen, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, null, of no use, orderless, phatic, planless, pointless, promiscuous, purportless, purposeless, rambling, random, roving, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, superfluous, systemless, unaccountable, unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unsignificant, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vagrant, vague, wandering, wanton, wayward
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