objectless
adjEtymology From object + -less.
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Without a purpose.
- You cannot imagine, dearest, how dreary is this idle objectless life to me; with nothing to employ me--not even correspondence.1843, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843:
- You assume, I think quite gratuitously, that God condemns the major part of His children to objectless future suffering.1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant:
1 more example
- For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular.1910, Basil King, The Wild Olive:
2
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Without a grammatical object.
- Derived terms
- objectlessly, objectlessness