driftless

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English

Etymology

drift +‎ -less

Adjective

driftless (comparative more driftless, superlative most driftless)

  1. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
  2. Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “driftless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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