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单词 aimlessness
释义
aimlessaim‧less /ˈeɪmləs/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • an aimless, spoiled young man
  • She changed from an aimless, pregnant teenager into a purposeful young woman.
  • The novel seems aimless, and the characters are stereotypes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Her aimless meandering eventually brought her to the top of Heymouth, directly underneath the towering cliffs.
  • It was a jungle of thick eucalyptus, corpses, tangled azalea, and memories of aimless nocturnal screams.
  • Now Scott, still aimless at 40, surprises his father with a visit at Christmas.
  • Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless, aimless Government.
  • Such precision baffled Quinn, for in all other respects Stillman seemed to be aimless.
  • This change should stop the aimless kicking downfield.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwithout any purpose
something that is pointless has no purpose and makes you angry or sad: · a film full of pointless violence· Never give your students pointless exercises to do -- always provide interesting, meaningful tasks.be pointless to do something: · It is pointless to argue about who is more to blame.
not having any purpose or plan and therefore boring or sad: · The novel seems aimless, and the characters are stereotypes.· She changed from an aimless, pregnant teenager into a purposeful young woman.
a crime or something bad that is senseless seems to have no meaning or purpose and you cannot understand why someone would do it: · It was a senseless and cruel murder.· Smashing up trains is such a senseless form of vandalism.· The suicide was described as a senseless waste of a young woman's life.
without any meaning or purpose and therefore boring, sad, or having no effect: · a meaningless campaign pledge· So many of us spend our lives doing meaningless work in huge faceless companies.· Several companies dismissed the ruling as "meaningless," saying it would have no effect on their operations.
also lack of direction if something lacks direction or has a lack of direction , it does not have a clear purpose and is not well organized: · It could have been a good film, but I felt it lacked direction.· He quit over the company's lack of direction.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounaimaimlessnessadjectiveaimlessverbaimadverbaimlessly
not having a clear purpose or reason:  a young man drifting through life in an aimless wayaimlessly adverbaimlessness noun [uncountable]
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