Dictionary Entry

aimless

Part of Speech: adjectivePronunciation: /ˈeɪm.ləs/Used In Literature ↓

Without aim, purpose, or direction.

In a Sentence

“an aimless life”

Origin

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Common Phrases

wandering aimless. aimlesslife aimlesswanderings aimlessway aimlessfashion aimlessaimless apparently

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Poetry examples for “aimless”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Her ancient beauty marr'd,
And, in her cold and aimless roving sight,
Horror of light;

Of August 7th, as a hunter walks--
Looking for rabbits maybe, aimless hunting--
Over the meadow where the Illini's

And mortal hate their thousand voices rose,
They passed like aimless arrows from his ear—
Nor did his heart or mind its portal close

With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?
Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel
--Being--who?

And, tired of aimless circling in one place,
Steer straight off after something into space.

We’ll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread
Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead
Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run

We'll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread
Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead
Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.