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
Dance in your living room, doodle aimlessly or spend an hour cloud-watching.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
But while its history is somewhat interesting, the beauty of Hydra is in relaxing at a café and aimlessly wandering its back lanes.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Quite a crowd had gathered by then, most of them the retired and the conventioneers who wander aimlessly up and down Kalakaua Avenue in the off seasons, and, when two police officers finally drove up, the crowd clapped.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
Owners of dogs with CCD often report that their pets pace aimlessly, bark at nothing, become anxious for no apparent reason, and accidentally relieve themselves the house.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
But while its history is somewhat interesting, the beauty of Hydra is in relaxing at a café and aimlessly wandering its back lanes.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Quite a crowd had gathered by then, most of them the retired and the conventioneers who wander aimlessly up and down Kalakaua Avenue in the off seasons, and, when two police officers finally drove up, the crowd clapped.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
Owners of dogs with CCD often report that their pets pace aimlessly, bark at nothing, become anxious for no apparent reason, and accidentally relieve themselves the house.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aimlessly
randomly
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The multiplier is automatically included and randomly assigned for every play at the time of purchase.—
Tanya Wildt,
Freep.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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At the end of the study, about 45% of the 105 patients who were randomly assigned to the early treatment group were still alive, compared with about 15% of the 105 who were assigned to the group treated later in the day.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Aimlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aimlessly. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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