as in randomly
without definite aim, direction, rule, or method
wandered aimlessly through the forest until we were hopelessly lost
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Recent Examples of aimlessly
This way of peering at screen culture from an inexact distance, which also comes up in a scolding scene where Ethan scrolls aimlessly through something like TikTok, rankles in a play that is otherwise so precise about physical time and space.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The primary concern will be Melissa’s slow crawl through the central Caribbean as the storm spins aimlessly south of Hispaniola.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
The scene where groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) runs aimlessly across the lawn borders on the ridiculous, but, without getting into spoilers, the only other mistake Peele makes is the film's antagonist.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Others from the church wandered almost aimlessly, looking for family members.
—Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
But Brentford did not just aimlessly hammer balls forward.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.
—Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer.
—Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Parties and shows that I was either given bad directions to and that couldn’t be found in an entire night of aimlessly driving.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The primary concern will be Melissa’s slow crawl through the central Caribbean as the storm spins aimlessly south of Hispaniola.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
The scene where groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) runs aimlessly across the lawn borders on the ridiculous, but, without getting into spoilers, the only other mistake Peele makes is the film's antagonist.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Others from the church wandered almost aimlessly, looking for family members.
—Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
But Brentford did not just aimlessly hammer balls forward.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.
—Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer.
—Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Parties and shows that I was either given bad directions to and that couldn’t be found in an entire night of aimlessly driving.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aimlessly
randomly
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When a mysterious and legendary skeleton, badly injured, randomly resurfaced in 2018, an interdisciplinary team of researchers went to work to find out who the person was.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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The adults were randomly separated into two groups.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Aimlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aimlessly. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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