driftless adjective3 •Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposelessBut 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. — 1898 •Random; having no fixed direction. •Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water). formsmore driftless · most driftless