objectless

objectless

English

Etymology

object +‎ -less

Adjective

objectless (not comparable)

1. Without a purpose.
   • 1843, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843‎:

     You cannot imagine, dearest, how dreary is this idle objectless life to me; with nothing to employ me--not even correspondence.

   • 1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant‎:

     You assume, I think quite gratuitously, that God condemns the major part of His children to objectless future suffering.

   • 1910, Basil King, The Wild Olive‎:

     For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular.

2. (grammar) Without a grammatical object.