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driftless

driftless adjective: having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless.

Adjective

driftless (comparative more driftless, superlative most driftless)

  1. Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless
    • But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2
  2. Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
  3. Random; having no fixed direction.
    • driftless control system
    • driftless Wiener process

Forms of driftless

comparativemore driftless
superlativemost driftless

Origin of driftless

From drift + -less.

Words formed from driftless

Questions about driftless

What does driftless mean?
Driftless means having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless.
What part of speech is driftless?
Driftless is an adjective.

Words near driftless in the dictionary

  1. driftingly
  2. driftingness
  3. driftings
  4. driftland
  5. driftlands
  6. driftless
  7. Driftless Area
  8. driftlessly
  9. driftlessness
  10. driftlet
  11. driftlets

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