Meanings
comparative more driftless · superlative most driftless
- 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.
1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2 - Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
Origin
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