aimlessly

[eym-lis-lee]

adverb

1. without purpose or intent.

   She wandered aimlessly among the empty houses, telling herself sad stories about all the people who weren’t there.

   There was no actual work to do, so I spent most of my workday browsing aimlessly through social media.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aimlessly¹

aimless ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

The response to Alexander-Arnold's arrival was savage, as were the mocking jeers that greeted a late cross that drifted aimlessly out of play.

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Players would shoot when it wasn't the best option, crosses were delivered aimlessly without assessing whether a forward was in the right position.

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Esteemed horror veteran Mike Flanagan is an executive producer and you can sense Stuckmann grabbing aimlessly in the last third for the kind of sickly visual elegance that is Flanagan’s deliberative style.

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She sits silently, her eyes glassy as she stares aimlessly across the hospital ward.

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The stand was around one-quarter full, but the jeers seemed to drift aimlessly over Europe's number one as he cheerily waved back, before heading off down the fairway, obligingly signing autographs as he went.

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