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/dərˈɛkʃənləs/ /dɪrˈɛkʃɪnləs/ /daɪrˈɛkʃɪnləs/ Listen

adjective

directionless adj.

Purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.

Synonyms: adrift(predicate), afloat(predicate), aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected.

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Etymology of 'Directionless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Directionless" Quotes from Famous Books

... lip, it is mere drapery, is withdrawn from attention; its texture, as well as its colour, is lost, its arrangement but faintly and severely indicated, with no broken or enmeshed light. The eyes are wide and directionless, not fixing anything with their gaze, nor riveting the brain to any special [218] external object, the brows without hair. Again, Greek sculpture deals almost exclusively with youth, where the moulding ...

— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater

... expression in painting, because, relatively to the eye or the lip, it is mere drapery, is withdrawn from attention; its texture, as well as its colour, is lost, its arrangement but faintly and severely indicated, with no broken or enmeshed light. The eyes are wide and directionless, not fixing anything with their gaze, nor riveting the brain to any special [218] external object, the brows without hair. Again, Greek sculpture deals almost exclusively with youth, where the moulding of the bodily organs is still as if suspended ...

— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater