undirected
Americanadjective
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not directed; not guided.
He wasted his time on undirected activity.
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bearing no address, as a letter.
adjective
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lacking a clear purpose or objective
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(of a letter, parcel, etc) having no address
Etymology
Origin of undirected
Example Sentences
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Charles Darwin, with his ideas of undirected variation and natural selection, described what was really happening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
"It will move faster, because evolution is undirected," says Burden.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The emotional valence of this room-size grid of images is one of nervousness, fretfulness, restless, undirected energy and dissonance.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
That said, it’s a mess of a book, fuzzy, disorganized, and maddeningly undirected.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
We had been an idiosyncratic, leaderless band in the summer, undirected except by the eccentric notions of Phineas.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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