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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

without a goal or direction;

e.g. His life felt aimless and pointless now that everything had been taken away.

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Similar Words

Arbitrary

Catch-as-catch-can

Contingent

Desultory

Dicey

Erratic

Forgiving

Haphazard

Helter-skelter

Hit-and-miss

Hit-or-miss

Indiscriminating

Interrupted

Nondeliberate

Nonpurposive

Purposeless

Random

Scattershot

Shilly-shally

Shotgun

Sketchy

Slapdash

Stray

Uncalculated

Undependable

Undiscriminating

Unforeseeable

Unfussy

Unreliable

Unsystematic

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Opposite Words

Advised

Aforethought

All-out

Aware

Calculated

Complete

Comprehensive

Conscious

Considered

Constant

Continuous

Deliberate

Established

Even

Exhaustive

Fixed

Full-scale

Intended

Intentional

Measured

No-holds-barred

Ordered

Out-and-out

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Purposeful

Purposive

Regular

Set

Stable

Steady

Studied

Thoroughgoing

Thoughtful

Total

Voluntary

Willed

Willful

Witting

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Related Words

Accidental

Accidentally

Aperiodic

Capricious

Casual

Catchy

Chance

Chancy

Changeable

Changeful

Contingent

Discontinuous

Disorderly

Disorganized

Empty

Episodic

Erratic

Facile

Fickle

Fitful

Fluctuating

Fluid

Fluky

Fortuitous

Inadvertent

Inane

Incidental

Inconsistent

Inconstant

Indiscriminate

Intermittent

Irregular

Lucky

Meaningless

Mercurial

Mutable

Occasional

Odd

One-dimensional

Pointless

Purposeless

Scattershot

Senseless

Shallow

Shotgun

Skin-deep

Skittish

Spasmodic

Spastic

Sporadic

Sporadically

Spotty

Superficial

Temperamental

Unconsidered

Undiscriminating

Unintended

Unintentional

Unplanned

Unpredictable

Unpremeditated

Unstable

Unsteady

Unsystematic

Unwitting

Variable

Volatile

Volatility

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