AIMLESS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for AIMLESS?

Need another word that means the same as “aimless”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “aimless” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Aimless” are: adrift, afloat, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant, purposeless, pointless, goalless, unfocused, unambitious, apathetic

Aimless as an Adjective

Definitions of "Aimless" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “aimless” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Without purpose or direction.
• Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another.
• Aimlessly drifting.

Synonyms of "Aimless" as an adjective (16 Words)

adrift	Floating without being either moored or steered. The seamen are adrift in lifeboats.
afloat	In general circulation; current. The main deck was afloat or awash.
apathetic	Marked by a lack of interest. An apathetic electorate.
directionless	Aimlessly drifting. Music which bordered on directionless experimentalism.
drifting	Continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job. A drifting double dealer.
floating	Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. The ship is still floating.
goalless	Having no points scores. A goalless draw.
planless	Aimlessly drifting.
pointless	Having no points scores. A pointless remark.
purposeless	Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. Purposeless vandalism.
rudderless	Aimlessly drifting. Today s leadership is rudderless.
unambitious	(of a plan or piece of work) not involving anything new, exciting, or demanding. He was an unambitious man.
undirected	Aimlessly drifting. She was full of ineffectual undirected anger.
unfocused	Not being in or brought into focus. His voice quavered with an unfocused rage.
vagabond	Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. A vagabond poacher.
vagrant	Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. The vagrant heart of my mother.

Usage Examples of "Aimless" as an adjective

• An aimless existence.

Associations of "Aimless" (30 Words)

adrift	So as to float without being either moored or steered. After the storm the boats were adrift.
afloat	Out of debt or difficulty. The canoes were still afloat.
aimlessly	Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice.
cast	A mould used to make an object by casting. I had to spend a month in a cast.
discursive	(of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive. The attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another.
drift	Vary or move from a fixed point or course. Snow drifting several feet high.
floating	(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position. Floating logs.
floe	A sheet of floating ice.
flooded	Covered with water. A flooded bathroom.
gallivant	Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. She quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe.
ice	A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating. Look at the ice on that dame.
limitless	Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent. Our resources are not limitless.
melt	A quantity of metal melted in one operation. Melt down gold.
mendicant	A member of a mendicant order. A mendicant friar.
nomadic	Living the life of a nomad; wandering. The nomadic habits of the Bedouins.
purpose	The quality of being determined to do or achieve something firmness of purpose. The building is no longer needed for its original purpose.
rambling	The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure. Scott s letter was long and rambling.
roam	Travel unsystematically over, through, or about (a place. The gypsies roamed the woods.
rover	A player who has a rover ball. A lunar rover.
roving	Migratory. They lead an unsettled and roving life.
rudderless	Aimlessly drifting. Today s leadership is rudderless.
truant	Of a pupil being a truant. If my daughter had been truanting from school I would have been informed.
undirected	Lacking direction; without a particular aim, purpose, or target. She was full of ineffectual undirected anger.
unsettled	Subject to change. An unsettled childhood.
vagabond	Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place. Roving vagabonds.
vagrant	Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. Vagrant beggars.
wanderer	A person who travels aimlessly. He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer.
wandering	Of a path e.g. She followed him in his wanderings and looked after him.