aimless
/ˈeɪmlɪs
/adjective
Without purpose or direction: an aimless existence...
- Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical.
- I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble.
- This is a troubling image, redolent of something locked in an aimless subterranean existence.
Synonyms
purposeless, pointless, goalless, undirected, objectless, unfocused, without purpose, without goal;
meaningless, senseless, futile, hollow, frivolous, barren, profitless, fruitless
unambitious, purposeless, undirected, apathetic, goalless;
drifting, wandering, adrift;
unoccupied, idle, at a loose end, with time to kill
Derivatives
aimlessness
/ noun ...- Jung believed that the more secular, materialistic, and compulsively extraverted our civilization became, the greater the unhappiness, senselessness and aimlessness of our lives.
- I think we have an aimlessness and a pointlessness out there that this legislation addresses, as well.
- Many of his novels resemble the telling of a dream conveyed with all its inconsistencies, its aimlessness; enigmatic narratives, balanced somewhere between the unspeakable and that which must be told.