a. [f. AIM sb. + -LESS.] Void of aim or object; purposeless. Also, void of the means of taking aim.
1627. May, Lucan’s Phars. (1631), III. 23. In his blind aymelesse hand a Pile he shooke.
1809. Anna Maria Porter, Don Sebastian, III. 112 (T.). The Turks, half asleep, and scarcely-roused from the stupefaction of opium, ran about in aimless confusion.
1827. Hood, Hero & Leander, lxxxv. Thine arrows miss me in the aimless dark!
1870. Morris, Earth. Par., II. III. 236. A life of aimless ease and luxury.
