Usually means: Lacking guidance, direction, or control.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word rudderless:

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  1. rudderless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rudderless: Merriam-Webster
  3. rudderless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rudderless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rudderless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rudderless: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rudderless, rudderless: Wordnik
  8. rudderless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rudderless: Wiktionary
  10. Rudderless, rudderless: Dictionary.com
  11. Rudderless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Rudderless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. rudderless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. rudderless: Rhymezone
  15. Rudderless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rudderless: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rudderless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. rudderless: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rudderless: Encyclopedia

(Note: See rudder as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Without a rudder.
▸ adjective:  Lacking guidance or direction.

Similar:
planless, directionless, purposeless, aimless, undirected, adrift, afloat, unruddered, steerless, thrusterless, more...

Opposite:
guided, directed, steered, controlled, managed

Types:
unmoored, unanchored, adrift, more...



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Similar:
planless, directionless, purposeless, aimless, undirected, adrift, afloat, unruddered, steerless, thrusterless, more...

Opposite:
guided, directed, steered, controlled, managed

Types:
unmoored, unanchored, adrift, more...



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