: 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
Alexandra KennedySome years, you feel that nothing much is being made except plotless tales about aimless young people wasting time …—Robin Buss
Robin BussThe 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
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
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
Daphne Uviller
Examples of aimless in a Sentence
he enjoyed taking aimless walks through the park
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Especially in times of market uncertainty or volatility, our attention tends to be sucked into the bottomless vortex of pointless prognostication and aimless activity.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Koogler is interested in human smallness, in our cosmic lack of control, and the softness of his gaze can render Deep Blue Sound’s exploration of existential uncertainty wonderfully funny and affecting in some moments, diffused and aimless in others.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Her dull, aimless life in Chicago as a cleaner who's stuck with her relatives is the opposite of special though.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Oh, the delicious irony of Mr. Only the Ivies Count Lest Your Child Fail to Launch having a daughter who’s in an aimless 19th month of a gap year between high school and college.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
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Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Koogler is interested in human smallness, in our cosmic lack of control, and the softness of his gaze can render Deep Blue Sound’s exploration of existential uncertainty wonderfully funny and affecting in some moments, diffused and aimless in others.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Her dull, aimless life in Chicago as a cleaner who's stuck with her relatives is the opposite of special though.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Oh, the delicious irony of Mr. Only the Ivies Count Lest Your Child Fail to Launch having a daughter who’s in an aimless 19th month of a gap year between high school and college.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for aimless
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“Aimless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aimless. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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