rudderless
adjEtymology From rudder + -less.
1
Without a rudder.
2
Figuratively Lacking guidance or direction.
- Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
- As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:
- Derived terms
- rudderlessly, rudderlessness
- Related terms
- even keel