Undirected

adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    not directed

    "He dabbed brown glaze paint on the jar close to the rim, and allowed it to trickle undirected down the sides"

Adjective
  1. 1
    aimlessly drifting wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
aberrantaberrativeadriftafloataimlessaimless

Example

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"Nor can I believe that the hen's egg (or the egg's hen?) arose by mere accident and evolved by slow, gradual, and undirected natural selection."

Etymology

From un- + directed.

Related phrases

undirected graphundirected path

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