Aimless

Definitions: Aimless

Aimless

Adjective

1. Aimlessly drifting.

2. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties".

Date "aimless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Aimless

Synonyms: adrift(p) (adj), afloat(p) (adj), directionless (adj), drifting (adj), floating (adj), planless (adj), rudderless (adj), undirected (adj), vagabond (adj), vagrant (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absence of Motive	Adjective: without rhyme or reason; aimless, capricious, whimsical; (chance).
Disorder	Adjective: disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous; (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical,
Intention	Random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aimless

English words defined with "aimless": aimlessly ♦ drifting ♦ Indirected ♦ without aim. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aimless": bit twiddling ♦ doodles. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'? (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)
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Domain	Title
Music	Aimless [IMPORT] (reference) Aimless Love (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Hence, it is that in these by no means inviting spots which are always termed (r)gloomy , the dreamer selects his apparently aimless walks.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Sydenham chorea, also called St. Vitus dance, is a childhood movement disorder characterized by rapid, irregular, aimless, involuntary movements of the muscles of the limbs, face, and trunk. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We must enact youth employment legislation to put jobless, aimless, hopeless youngsters to work on useful projects.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Aimless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.48% of the time. "Aimless" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.48%	65	41,645
Noun (proper)	1.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	66	N/A

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Language		Translations for "aimless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paqëllim (desultory, endless, inadvertent, inexpedient). (various references)

Arabic		‏بلا هدف (adrift, aimlessly, purposeless), ‏بلا غاية (purposeless). (various references)

Bulgarian		безсмислен (absurd, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безцелен (desultory, meaningless, objectless, pointless, purposeless). (various references)

Chinese		盲目 (blind), � 目的 (Purposeless). (various references)

Czech		bezcílný, bezúèelný (purposeless). (various references)

Dutch		doelloos. (various references)

Finnish		tarkoitukseton (pointless, purposeless, useless, without point). (various references)

French		vain, sans objectif, sans but (aimlessly), dés�"uvré. (various references)

Frisian		doelleas. (various references)

German		ziellos (planlos, purposeless, random). (various references)

Greek		άσκοποσ (feckless, goalless, impractical, inane, needless, objectless, pointless, purportless, purposeless). (various references)

Hebrew		חסר תכלית (pointless, vacuous). (various references)

Hungarian		céltalan (meaningless, misguided, objectless, otiose, pointless, purposeless). (various references)

Indonesian		tanpa tujuan. (various references)

Italian		senza scopo (objectless, purposeless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		漫然 (in a rambling way). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ま�"ぜ�" (fulfilment of a vow, in a rambling way, many books, many scrolls, perfection, winning with the highest possible score), あてのない. (various references)

Korean		목표 없�". (various references)

Manx		neureaghit (unarranged, unbrushed, unbrushed as hair, uncombed, unfixed, unfixed as date), gyn bun ny baare. (various references)

Pig Latin		aimlessay

Polish		bezcelowy. (various references)

Portuguese		sem objetivo (objectless, purposeless). (various references)

Romanian		fãrã rost (beside the purpose, dud, foolish, to no end, vain), fãrã ţel. (various references)

Russian		бесцельный (directionless, objectless, purposeless, unaimed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		besciljan (objectless, purposeless). (various references)

Spanish		sin propósito fijo, sin propósito concreto (wantonly), sin objetivo (objectless, purposeless, unfocused). (various references)

Swedish		utan mål (adrift, at a loose end). (various references)

Turkish		amaçsız (at an end, objectless, pointless, purposeless, vacuous, vagabond, wanton, without cause), maksatsız, hedefsiz (objectless), gayesiz. (various references)

Turkmen		peяwagtna (idle, in one's way). (various references)

Ukranian		безцільний (meaningless, objectless, purposeless). (various references)

Vietnamese		vu vơ (gratuitous, idle, idly), không mục đích, bâng quơ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aimless": aimlessly, aimlessness, aimlessnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aimless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aemulus, Aigles, ailiss, aimel, Aimsleys, animles, Cimliss. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aimless" (pronounced ā"mlus)
5	ā" m l u s	blameless, nameless, shameless.
4	-m l u s	bottomless, harmless, homeless, limbless, seamless, timeless, victimless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, headless, heartless, helpless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, selfless, senseless, sexless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: samiels, seismal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-s-s"
	-1 letter: aisles, emails, lassie, mailes, mesial, missal, missel, salmis, samiel, slimes, smiles.
	-2 letters: aisle, almes, amies, amiss, email, isles, lames, lases, limas, limes, maile, mails, males, masse, meals, mesas, miles, mises, sails, sales, salmi, seals, seams, seism, semis, sials, simas, sisal, slams, slime, slims, smile.
	-3 letters: ails, aims, ales, alme, alms, amie, amis, elms, ilea, isle, isms, lame, lams, lase, lass, leas, leis, less, lies, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, mass, meal, mels, mesa, mess, mile, mils, mise, miss, sail, sale, sals, same, seal, seam, seas, seis, sels, semi, sial, sima, sims, slam, slim.
	-4 letters: ail, aim, ais, ale, als, ami, ass, elm, els, ems, ess, ism, lam, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, mae, mas, mel, mil, mis, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, sim, sis.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, al, am, as, el, em, es, is, la, li, ma, me, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-s-s"
	+1 letter: mailless, malaises, melismas, misdeals, misleads, missable, realisms, smilaxes.
	+2 letters: aimlessly, alienisms, allelisms, balminess, camisoles, dismalest, fishmeals, idealisms, lamisters, legalisms, manliness, massively, measliest, medalists, melanisms, melanists, messaline, metalises, metalists, misallies, misalters, mislabels, mislayers, mislearns, misplaces, mispleads, misvalues, moralises, musicales, selamliks, semolinas, serialism, simulates, smaltines, smaltites.
	+3 letters: admissible, alchemists, almsgivers, assemblies, assembling, assimilate, assoilment, clamminess, clematises, climaxless, damselfish, dismalness, dismantles, eclampsias, enamelists, facsimiles, feudalisms, formalises, glamorises, impassable, impassible, lamaseries, lesbianism, marbleises, masculines, medallists, mentalisms, mentalists, mescalines, mesnalties, messalines, milkshakes, misapplies, misclassed, misclasses, miserables, mishandles, misleaders, mislocates, misrelates, missileman, moniliases, musicalise, normalises, palimpsest, psalmodies, secularism, semestrial, semifinals, semimetals, semipostal, sensualism, serialisms, sicklemias, simulacres, sinsemilla, slimeballs, slipstream, specialism, stimulates, sublimates, surrealism, timescales, verbalisms, welfarisms.
	+4 letters: aimlessness, amaryllises, ambisexuals, amiableness, amyloidoses, antimissile, assimilable, assimilated, assimilates, assoilments, balminesses, bipedalisms, blasphemies, cacomistles, caramelises, centralisms, damselflies, disassemble, disassembly, disclaimers, disclimaxes, dissimilate, dissimulate, esemplastic, evangelisms, federalisms, homoplasies, impassively, instalments, laminitises, leishmanias, lemniscates, lesbianisms, liberalisms, literalisms, manlinesses, marshalcies, masculinise, meaningless, metabolisms, metalsmiths, metanalysis, metaplasias, microscales, militarises, millesimals, millstreams, mineralises, misanalyses, misassemble, misbalances, mischannels, misshapenly, musicalised, musicalises, musicalizes, neorealisms, neutralisms, palimpsests, palmistries, personalism, relativisms, revivalisms, rosemalings, schmalziest, secularisms, seismically, semasiology, semiclassic, semilethals, semipostals, sensualisms, sexagesimal, shmaltziest, signalments, simulcasted, sinsemillas, slipstreams, specialisms, squeamishly, stalagmites, streamlines, subclimaxes, subfamilies, surrealisms, sympetalies, thalassemia, thalassemic, thimerosals, unmanliness, womanliness.
	+5 letters: abolishments, abstemiously, acclimatises, accomplishes, almightiness, ambitionless, amicableness, antielitisms, antimissiles, antirealisms, aspergillums, assemblagist, assimilative, athleticisms, bimetallisms, bimetallists, cavalierisms, clamminesses, clericalisms, commensalism, damselfishes, disablements, disassembled, disassembles, dismalnesses, dissimilated, dissimilates, dissimulated, dissimulates, drillmasters, essentialism, externalisms, familiarises, familiarness, glucosamines, glutaminases, helmsmanship, hemodialyses, hemodialysis, immortalises, imperialisms, imperialists, inadmissible, installments, leprosariums, lifemanships, maidenliness, manifoldness, mannerliness, marlinspikes, masculinised, masculinises, masculinizes, masterliness, materialises, materialisms, materialists, materialness, maternalisms, medievalisms, medievalists, memorialises, memorialists, mesalliances, militantness, milquetoasts, misalliances, misallocates, misassembled, misassembles, miscellanies, miscellanist, misevaluates, mistranslate, molestations, musicalities, orientalisms, osmolalities, osmolarities, parallelisms, paternalisms, personalisms, plasminogens, plasmogamies, plebeianisms, pleinairisms, qualmishness, reassemblies, reassembling, regionalisms, restimulates, salesmanship, salinometers, schmaltziest, scopolamines, sectionalism, semiclassics, semifinalist, semimystical, semitrailers, sexagesimals, sillimanites, similarities, simultaneous, slipstreamed, somatologies, stablishment, steelmakings, stepfamilies, stigmasterol, streamliners, sulfonamides, superrealism, symmetallism, systemically, teetotalisms, testimonials, thalassaemia, thalassemias, thalassemics, timepleasers, ultimateness, universalism.
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