driftless
adjEtymology From drift + -less.
1
Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless
- 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.1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2:
2
Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
3
Random; having no fixed direction.
- driftless control system
- driftless Wiener process
- Derived terms
- Driftless Area, driftlessly, driftlessness