Meaning

3 senses
  1. Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless

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

  3. Random; having no fixed direction.

    driftless control system

    driftless Wiener process

Origin

From drift + -less.

From drift + -less.

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Forms

more driftless, most driftless
Comparativemore driftless Lesson
Superlativemost driftless Lesson

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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