driftless
English
Etymology
Adjective
driftless (comparative more driftless, superlative most driftless)
- Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless[1]
- 1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2:
- But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.
- Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
- Random; having no fixed direction.
- driftless control system
- driftless Wiener process
Derived terms
References
- ^ “driftless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.