aimless

adjective

aim·less ˈām-ləs

: without aim or purpose : not having a goal or purpose

… we would not get to sit on the verandah drinking cold beer at the end of the day, starting up aimless conversations with other couples …—

Alexandra Kennedy

Some years, you feel that nothing much is being made except plotless tales about aimless young people wasting time …—

Robin Buss

The wind blew, the shad were nowhere to be found, even steady use of our fish locator and aimless trolling around the lakes failed to provoke a single strike.—

Steve Davis

aimlessly adverb

… whenever they had the chance, he and Zave would climb the steep streets and walk aimlessly beneath the arching trees, looking at the mansions. —

James A. Michener

aimlessness noun

… my friends are all prematurely successful in their worthwhile, absorbing careers, and I am frightening my parents and maybe even myself with my aimlessness. —

Daphne Uviller

Examples of aimless in a Sentence

he enjoyed taking aimless walks through the park

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The protagonist of this comic novel is George, a millennial with vague writerly aspirations, who sustains his aimless life style by drawing on family connections and his girlfriend’s trust fund. —

The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 As with Cassavetes, $$$ suffers from some aimless stretches, although unlike the works of that pioneering filmmaker the brief running time prevents too much tedium from settling in. —

Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 This is a very critical difference because a vision without execution stays a dream, and execution without a vision becomes aimless. —

Expert Panel®, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Slowness and making viewers aware of deceptively aimless pacing are perhaps the definitive characteristics of Wang’s output. —

Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for aimless