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