: 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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Now is the time to wage war, not through aimless violence, but with a legal and rational crackdown on the forces that are desperately trying to annihilate our nation.
—Brooke L. Rollins, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
None more so than how Conor Coady and Arthur Okonkwo contrived to gift Burrell the third goal from what was effectively an aimless long punt forward.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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Brooke L. Rollins, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
None more so than how Conor Coady and Arthur Okonkwo contrived to gift Burrell the third goal from what was effectively an aimless long punt forward.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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