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Undirected

Undirected \Un`di*rect"ed\, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + directed; in sense 3 properly p. p. of undirect.]

  1. Not directed; not guided; left without direction.

  2. Not addressed; not superscribed, as a letter.

  3. Misdirected; misled; led astray. [R.]

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undirected

a. not directed

WordNet
undirected

adj. aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless]

Usage examples of "undirected".

This, then, is a union of Reason with something that is not Reason but a mere indeterminate striving in a being not yet illuminated: the offspring Love, therefore, is not perfect, not self-sufficient, but unfinished, bearing the signs of its parentage, the undirected striving and the self-sufficient Reason.

Absent the customary rites of passage, undirected, I kept going forward, thinking that I would sooner or later encounter an official who would inscribe my name or open a computer file or in some other fashion notate my arrival.

Reason with something that is not Reason but a mere indeterminate striving in a being not yet illuminated: the offspring Love, therefore, is not perfect, not self-sufficient, but unfinished, bearing the signs of its parentage, the undirected striving and the self-sufficient Reason.

The sounds were primal and complex, a perfect chaos of unspent, unspoken, undirected emotions, most of which were a backlog that only then found expression.

As the Indians witnessed her apparently undirected movements, a feeling of awe gained a footing among them, and some of the bold-est of their party began to distrust the issue of an expedition that had commenced so prosperously.

His thoughts scrambled with a turmoil of despair and undirected anger, Tharion left Guild Headquarters and strode out into the streets of First Landing.

People sitting in renovated kitchens, decent, sad, a little bitter in an undirected way.

For long minutes it was undirected, but slowly it gelled and found an object to focus on.

The only protection, then, is to be in a perpetual state of centeredness in undirected alertness, every ready for sudden attack and immediate response.

Exhausted he was, nerveless, weak, but this apathy was still invaded from time to time with fierce incursions of a spirit of unrest and revolt, reactions, momentary returns of the blind, undirected energy that at one time had prompted him to a vast desire to acquit himself of some terrible deed of readjustment, just what, he could not say, some terrifying martyrdom, some awe-inspiring immolation, consummate, incisive, conclusive.

All the people drank out of the common pot thereafter, and all became common, and unhinged and undirected, and a little bit trashy.

Yet we that need so grievously the light Of knowledge, were it but a slender ray No larger than should filter through the chink Of any little star, must live our lives Unholpen, undirected.

The only protection, then, is to be in a perpetual state of centeredness in undirected alertness, every ready for sudden attack and immediate response.

This daymare even began invading my waking hours, especially toward dawn, when I was in that vulnerable, suggestible mental state that extreme fatigue and undirected anxiety can bring on.

People sitting in renovated kitchens, decent, sad, a little bitter in an undirected way.