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单词 aimless
释义
aimless
adjective
mainlydisapproving
uk
/ˈeɪm.ləs/us
/ˈeɪm.ləs/
without anyclearintentions,purpose, ordirection:
无目的的，无目标的，无方向的
She said that herlifeseemedaimless after herchildrenlefthome.她说孩子们离开家后，她的生活好像没有了目标。
Synonyms
directionless
rudderless
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having no clear plan or purpose
  • aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
  • directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
  • purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
  • adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university.
  • emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • be at a loose endidiom
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • futile
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • no goodidiom
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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Related words

aimlessly
aimlessness
(Definition ofaimlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

aimless| American Dictionary

aimless
adjective
us
/ˈeɪm·ləs/

aimlessadjective(INTEND)

without having anyclearpurposeorspecificreason:
aimlessviolence

aimlessly

adverbus
/ˈeɪm·ləs·li/

aimlessness

noun[U]us
/ˈeɪm·ləs·nəs/
(Definition ofaimlessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaimless

aimless
Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundless credulity,aimlessempiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft.
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And on it continues with fairlyaimlesstriviality.
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Here he gives this type ofaimless, disorganized, and uncontrolled anarchism a voice.
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These regularities would seem to reveal an organized system rather than theaimlesseffects of the random activation of affect programs during sleep.
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For me they seem a bitaimlessin their rich texture, and quite possibly the work of the same composer.
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The most frequent presenting complaints for these disorders were insomnia, any form of aggression (termed global aggression), talking to oneself,aimlesswandering, and restlessness.
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Totalitarian evil, while it upheld an ideal of transformation, was essentiallyaimless, an end in and of itself.
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The benefit of the genetic algorithm was in cross-breeding favourite responses, in nosing around the space withoutaimlessrandomisation.
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The one that is of interest here adds a component to the meaning of the base verb, namely that the action isaimless.
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Balanced takes alternate with others which refuse to pick a clear center of interest and merely open up a space foraimlessdrift.
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Restlessness andaimlesswandering rank fourth (39 %) and fifth (36 %) respectively.
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Evers'l also offers a useful distinction between 'aimless' care and care that has a purpose beyond maintaining the status quo.
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Gaspra - the title alludes to the 'aimlesswandering' in space of an asteroid which is five k ilometres in diameter - is the earliest score here.
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To simplify the contrast for the sake of clarity: early modern nature was benevolent, purposeful, and sovereign through enlightened assent; modern nature was indifferent,aimless, and sovereign through physical necessity.
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They set a balance between encouraging pupils to try out the different possibilities of equipment, and restricting their options, to avoid time-consuming andaimlessscrolling through sounds, effects or values.
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