rudderless
English
editEtymology
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editrudderless (comparative more rudderless, superlative most rudderless)
- Without a rudder.
- Lacking guidance or direction.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
- Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
- 2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:
- As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editwithout a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance
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