Contextualizebeta

driftless

adj

Etymology

From drift + -less.

  1. derived from *dʰreybʰ-✻
  2. derived from *driftiz✻
  3. derived from *drift✻
  4. derived from drift
  5. suffixed as driftless — “drift + less”

Definitions

  1. Having no goal or direction

    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.

  2. Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).

  3. Random

    Random; having no fixed direction.

    • driftless control system
    • driftless Wiener process

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for driftless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA