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planless, a.|ˈplænlɪs|
[f. plan n. + -less.]
Without a plan; not planned; unsystematic.
1800Coleridge Piccolom. iv. iv. 40 Every planless measure, chance event..Will they connect, and weave them all together Into one web of treason. 1852Blackie Stud. Lang. 11 Where not stupid, how often careless, aimless, and planless! 1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 69 All England was before us; ours was a planless expedition. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 51 Little brick houses..festering in planless chaos. 1942J. Steinbeck Moon is Down ii. 25 Fine weapons and fine planning against unarmed, planless enemies. 1957[see contract v. 2 d].
Hence ˈplanlessly adv., ˈplanlessness.
1894Scott. Leader 8 Mar. 3 That large..school whose method seems to be to begin writing and go planlessly ahead. 1906Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 408 The planlessness of moral instruction in schools. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Sept. 609/2 It has the merit, certainly, that almost any plan has over planlessness. 1944I. Origo Diary 13 Feb. in War in Val d'Orcia (1947) 140 It is odd how used one can become to uncertainty for the future, to a complete planlessness. 1962Punch 30 May 844/1, I have already let several valuable years slip planlessly by. 1976Sunday Times (Lagos) 7 Nov. 12/2 The planlessness of the flashes should take us to the most unlikely place where the story should begin, the epilogue. |