Undirected

Definition: Undirected

Undirected

Adjective

1. Aimlessly drifting.

2. Lacking guidance or direction; "earnest but undirected efforts"; "an unguided tour"; "unguided days and rotten times"- Shakespeare.

Date "undirected" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Note: Undirected \Un`di*rect"ed\, adjective. [In senses and, prefix un- not directed; in sense properly present participle of undirect.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Undirected

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deviation	Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.
Intention	Random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Undirected

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I think that it is not really a tumornot an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of fleshbut that it is in fact a new organ a new part of the brain. (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Undirected

Domain	Title
Books	Notes on an undirected life : as one anthropologist tells it (reference) Thinking : directed, undirected, and creative (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Undirected

"Undirected" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undirected" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Undirected

Modern Translation: Undirected

Language		Translations for "undirected"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		ненасочен, неадресиран. (various references)

Farsi		هدایت نشده , رهبری نشده , راهنماءی نشده . (various references)

German		ungeleitet. (various references)

Greek		χωρίσ διεύθυνσιν, χωρίσ διευθυντήν. (various references)

Hungarian		utasítás nélkül, megcímzetlen, irányítás nélkül, címzetlen, cím nélküli. (various references)

Manx		gyn stiurey (pilotless, uncontrollable, uncontrollable as ship). (various references)

Pig Latin		irectedunday

Russian		неориентированный. (various references)

Turkish		yönlendirilmemiş, yönetim altında olmayan, adressiz (unaddressed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Undirected"

Words rhyming with "undirected" (pronounced 'Un`di*rect"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Abstorted, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bloody-minded, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Encysted, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, hearted, high-minded, interrelated, Lered, Longheaded, long-winded, Maked. (additional references)

Anagrams: Undirected

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: reinducted, uncredited.
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-i-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: reinduced.
	-2 letters: ceinture, cindered, credited, dendrite, deuteric, directed, enuretic, inducted, inductee, intruded, reinduce, reinduct, retinued, reunited, unedited.
	-3 letters: centred, credent, decider, decried, denture, denuder, detinue, detrude, endited, endured, enteric, enticed, enticer, eructed, erudite, eucrite, induced, inducer, intrude, recited, reduced, retinue, retuned, reunite, tenured, tierced, trended, turdine, undried, untired, untried, uterine.
	-4 letters: center, centre, cerite.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-i-n-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: rediscounted, reintroduced, unaccredited.
	+3 letters: counterbidden, counterraided.
	+4 letters: overdiscounted, uncredentialed.
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