rudderless

English

Etymology

rudder +‎ -less

Adjective

rudderless (comparative more rudderless, superlative most rudderless)

  1. Without a rudder.
  2. 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.

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