unpurposedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpəːpəst/, U.S. /ˌənˈpərpəst/ Having no purpose; (also) not intentional, not done or happening on purpose.
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the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adjective] > unplanned
suddena1300
unpremeditate1551
extemporal1570
unpurposed1570
unmeditated1576
extemporate1590
unpremeditated1597
unplotted1598
extemporary1610
extemporanean1621
extempory1623
impremeditate1647
unthought1648
unresolved1649
extemporate1651
incogitate1652
unprojected1653
indeliberate1655
extemporaneous1656
indeliberated1656
autoschediastical1662
casual1667
offhanda1668
undiscourseda1670
extemporany1673
unplanned1775
impromptu1789
on (also upon) the spur of the moment (or occasion, etc.)1801
autoschediastic1809
impromptuary1827
improvised1833
extemporized1856
spontaneous1856
unconsidered1876
undevised1894
lashed-up1920
ad-libbed1933
willy-nilly1933
off the cuff1948
the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adjective] > unintentional or involuntary > aimless
purposeless1552
aimless1583
wayless1605
shapelessa1616
designless1649
scopeless1666
unmeaning1680
objectless1797
motiveless1798
purportless1802
driftless1806
adrift1818
unpurpose-like1825
unpurposed1827
goalless1828
nothingarian1859
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > without purpose
unpurposed1885
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiij Of second vnpurposed frute,..arrising by Geometrie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 84 Do it at once, Or thy precedent Seruices are all But accidents vnpurpos'd. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 32 The restorement of a free born man from an unpurpos'd, and unworthy bondage to a rightfull liberty.
1776 B. Victor Orig. Lett., Dramatic Pieces & Poems II. 21 In love The heart is a deceiver; and, unguarded, Slides into guilt unpurpos'd.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 215 The lonely bard.., when forth he walked Unpurposed.
1850 W. Sweetser Mental Hygiene (ed. 2) xxiii. 272 Unfortunate, though unpurposed results of actions.
1885 W. J. Sendall Literary Remains C. S. Calverley 53 The work which he has left behind him..is, as to much of it, unpurposed and fragmentary.
1902 Classical Rev. 16 262/2 This is rather to be ranked with such an unpurposed assonance.
1972 M. Rosenberg Masks of King Lear 286 All his autocratic force spent, his hands began to move in unpurposed benediction.
2002 M. Holroyd Wks. on Paper 157 A figure pinned to this transitory period of decline, and mirroring it through his idle and unpurposed life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1570