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English
Etymology
rudder + -less
Adjective
rudderless (comparative more rudderless, superlative most rudderless)
- Without a rudder.
- Lacking guidance or direction.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.
Translations
without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance
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