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词汇 directionless
释义 directionless
adjective
uk /daɪˈrek.ʃən.ləs//dɪˈrek.ʃən.ləs/ us /daɪˈrek.ʃən.ləs//dɪˈrek.ʃən.ləs/
not knowing what to do or what you want to do失去方向的,迷失的
Synonyms
adrift
aimlessmainly disapproving
rudderless
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

having no clear plan or purpose
aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university.
emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
futility
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability

Examples of directionless


directionless
The natural light in the reading room is diffuse and directionless and, like the overcast sky, the light source is never seen directly.
This laneway was clearly not, as the slummer genre would have it, an unstable mishmash of listless and directionless deviants.
The loss of time is also the loss of memory, where the unusual lyrical use of the hexameter exchanges strife on land for a directionless bobbing about at sea.
In the process of arriving at that intact version of the tune, fragments drift through the instrumental fabric, coming in and out of focus, surrounded by tremolos and directionless harmonies.
They are drifting, powerless, rudderless, inert and directionless towards their inevitable dissolution.
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We see across the country these great directionless monsters, sliding out of control with many moving remorselessly towards bankruptcy.
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Tiki-taka is associated with flair, creativity, and touch, but can also be taken to a slow, directionless extreme that sacrifices effectiveness for aesthetics.
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The other three forms are directionless change, stasis, and decline.
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Yorke would later attribute this behavior his frustrations with the band's perceived directionless in defining themselves.
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The first phase, which was marked by rioting, he referred to as the unorganized and directionless phase.
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After this was resolved in 1897, his government became increasingly directionless.
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It is a scalar field in three-space: a directionless value (scalar) that depends only on its location.
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She feels directionless in her new normal life and has nightmares about losing her powers.
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Holden is at various times disaffected, disgruntled, alienated, isolated, directionless, and sarcastic.
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Missing his fiancee and the excitement of the war, he felt directionless; he dreaded going back to work in an office and considered himself a sportsman rather than a businessman.
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