directionless

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Recent Examples of directionless Seattle currently feels like one of the most bland and directionless teams and that shows with how the club is regarded across most categories. Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025 Unstructured, context-free datasets are like maps without legends—large but directionless. Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Whether driven by social apathy or artistic passion, James—effortlessly played by O’Connor with hangdog elegance—registers as a compelling update of the ’70s American male loner archetype for another dispiriting, directionless time. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for directionless
Adjective
  • But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • In How To Do Nothing, Jenny Odell talks about how the pursuit of productivity — driven by capitalism, competition, and consumption — has redirected our attention outward, leaving us feeling empty and purposeless.
    refinery29.com, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • Meetings without purpose are not aimless.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The pleasure Warner brings to the exchange reflects just how much his character has transformed from an aimless teen afraid to fail into an adult who recognizes that trial and error are part of life.
    Laura Bradley, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2025

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“Directionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/directionless. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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