aimless (adj.)

late 14c., "a purpose, thing intended;" from aim (v.) or from nouns from the verb in Old French. The meaning "action of aiming" is from early 15c. To take aim originally was make aim (early 15c.).

word-forming element meaning "lacking, cannot be, does not," from Old English -leas, from leas "free (from), devoid (of), false, feigned," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Dutch -loos, German -los "-less," Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," Middle Dutch los, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart." Related to loose and lease.