"driftless" meaning in English

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Driftless Area"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "driftlessly"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "driftlessness"
    }
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        "2": "drift",
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From drift + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more driftless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most driftless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "goal",
          "goal"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ],
        [
          "aimless",
          "aimless"
        ],
        [
          "purposeless",
          "purposeless"
        ],
        [
          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
        [
          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
        ]
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water)."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "driftless control system",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "driftless Wiener process",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Random; having no fixed direction."
      ],
      "id": "en-driftless-en-adj-O7dqj3Qo",
      "links": [
        [
          "Random",
          "random"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "driftless"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -less",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Driftless Area"
    },
    {
      "word": "driftlessly"
    },
    {
      "word": "driftlessness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From drift + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more driftless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most driftless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "goal",
          "goal"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ],
        [
          "aimless",
          "aimless"
        ],
        [
          "purposeless",
          "purposeless"
        ],
        [
          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
        [
          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water)."
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "driftless control system",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "driftless Wiener process",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Random; having no fixed direction."
      ],
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        [
          "Random",
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        ],
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          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "driftless"
}