Rudderless meaning

Adjective: rudderless

Pronunciation: (ru-du-lus)

Rudderless meaning: Aimlessly drifting

Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, plan less, undirected

Quotations: Mahatma Gandhi – Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Michael Jacobson – The agency has had so many turnovers in the top spot, and turmoil throughout, that it could have benefited from a period of steady leadership. The country doesn’t need a rudderless FDA.

Harry Reid – The administration’s strategy is aimless, and sadly, it’s rudderless. The vote is a victory for our troops and the American people.

John Kinsey – This market has no leadership. It’s like a rudderless ship, bobbing up and down on the ocean. What’s up one day, is down the next.

John Owen – Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

Sample sentences:

1. The TSE 300 was just like a rudderless ship floating on the waves.
2. The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. It´s us, only us.
3. Tristan takes his harp in the rudderless boat.
4. It’s not trickledown economics. The problem that the president has is that he’s rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn’t quite know what to do. It’s a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a super tanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
5. We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.
6. He’s lost the plot, people tell me. He’s drifting rudderless in the wide sea.
7. The wall of worry remains. Anything that destabilizes Europe is bound to have repercussions around the world, the market is rudderless.
8. These death confirmations and rejections are all part of a big pitch for power within an increasingly fractured and rudderless Taliban organization.
9. Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
10. You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay that’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty four.