Dictionary - Definition of DRIFTLESS

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Definition: DRIFTLESS


Part of Speech	Definition
Adjective	1. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.[Websters] 2. Being purposeless or aimless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being random. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being causeless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb driftlessly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form (driftlessly)	1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective driftless.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

Date "Driftless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Common Expressions: DRIFTLESS

Expressions	Definition
Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge	Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge in the northeastern corner of Iowa. (references)
Driftless Zone	The Driftless Zone (sometimes called the Driftless Area) is an area of about 20,000 square miles in western Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and extreme northwestern Illinois, which was by-passed by the continental glaciers. As a result, the topography is more rugged than that usually associated with the Midwest. In Wisconsin, the Driftless Zone parallels the Mississippi River to the Illinois state line in a band 60 to 80 miles wide. About halfway a lobe extends farther northeast into Wisconsin. In Iowa, it also parallels the Mississippi River from the Minnesota state line to about Dubuque in a band approximately 20 miles wide.The Minnesota and Illinois portions are much smaller, by comparison, and much more irregularly defined. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.			Top

Topics by Level of Interest: DRIFTLESS
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)		Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
Driftless Area	108		Driftless Area	108
Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge	13		Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge	13
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: driftless
Position	Synonyms (sorted by strength)
Adjective	purposeless, aimless, causeless, random. Consider also: casual, senseless, wanton, accidental, meaningless, pointless, irregular, patchy, adrift, fortuitous, adventitious, arbitrary, indiscriminate, useless, afloat, directionless, floating, rudderless.
Other	designless.
Expression	without aim.
Source: Eve, based on meta analysis.		Top

Computed Synonyms: driftless

Rank	Intensity	Word	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	2.5096	driftless	pointless	vain, useless, meaningless, futile, senseless
2	2.4095	driftless	mindless	careless, thoughtless, stupid, foolish, heedless
3	2.4095	driftless	aimless	purposeless, pointless, useless, vain, abortive
4	2.4094	driftless	senseless	foolish, stupid, insensate, inane, silly
5	2.4093	driftless	meaningless	empty, senseless, vain, poor, insignificant
6	2.4093	driftless	purposeless	aimless, pointless, meaningless, useless, futile
7	2.1092	driftless	fatuous	foolish, silly, stupid, idiotic, daft
8	2.0090	driftless	unmeaning	meaningless, senseless, vacuous, pointless, absurd
9	2.0088	driftless	nonsensical	absurd, foolish, ridiculous, senseless, preposterous
10	1.4094	driftless	useless	futile, vain, worthless, unavailing, needless
11	1.4094	driftless	headless	acephalous, foolish, silly, fatuous, goofy
12	1.4093	driftless	reasonless	irrational, unreasonable, senseless, causeless, preposterous
13	1.1092	driftless	ridiculous	absurd, foolish, comic, ludicrous, laughable
14	1.1090	driftless	preposterous	absurd, ridiculous, foolish, nonsensical, ludicrous
15	1.0191	driftless	despiteful	spiteful, malicious, vicious, malignant, nasty
-------------------- 14 synonyms ranked from 16 to 29 abridged --------------------
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: driftless

Rank	Intensity	Word	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	1.0090	driftless	kill time	senseless, insensate, hard-hearted
2	1.0090	driftless	at random	random, haphazard, haphazardly
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Synonyms within Context: driftless
Context	Synonyms within Context
Intention	Driftless, aimless, causeless, designless, indiscriminate, promiscuous, purposeless, random, undirected, without purpose.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.		Top

Translations: DRIFTLESS

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian	besciljan (aimless, driftless), bezúčelný (purposeless, inexpedient, aimless, driftless, useless), nesmyslný (nonsensical, absurd, pointless, preposterous, unreasonable). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina	besciljan (aimless, driftless), bezúčelný (purposeless, inexpedient, aimless, driftless, useless), nesmyslný (nonsensical, absurd, pointless, preposterous, unreasonable). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech	besciljan (aimless, driftless), bezúčelný (purposeless, inexpedient, aimless, driftless, useless), nesmyslný (nonsensical, absurd, pointless, preposterous, unreasonable). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch	Ziellos (aimless, aimlessly, random, at random, desultory). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
German	Ziellos (aimless, aimlessly, random, at random, desultory). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
High German	Ziellos (aimless, aimlessly, random, at random, desultory). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch	Ziellos (aimless, aimlessly, random, at random, desultory). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian	бессмысленный (meaningless, nonsensical, senseless, headless, unmeaning). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration)	bessmyslennyy (meaningless, nonsensical, senseless, headless, unmeaning). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki	бессмысленный (meaningless, nonsensical, senseless, headless, unmeaning). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration)	bessmyslennyy (meaningless, nonsensical, senseless, headless, unmeaning). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, driftless. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations).				Top

Language	Translations for “driftless” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag	drathagiftlathagess (driftless). Additional references: Athag, driftless. (volunteer)
Double Dutch	dragiftlagess (driftless). Additional references: Double Dutch, driftless. (volunteer)
Leet	\|)\|2!\|#71£zz (driftless). Additional references: Leet, driftless. (volunteer)
Oppish	dropiftlopess (driftless). Additional references: Oppish, driftless. (volunteer)
Pig Latin	iftlessdray (driftless). Additional references: Pig Latin, driftless. (volunteer)
Terran B	Ziellos (driftless). Additional references: Terran B, driftless. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi	drubiftlubess (driftless). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, driftless. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor.				Top