adrift
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- drifting, afloat, unanchored, unmoored
- aimless, directionless, goalless, purposeless
[adverb]
Synonyms:
- wrong, amiss, astray, off course

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

a‧drift /əˈdrɪft/ adjective, adverb

1. a boat that is adrift is not fastened to anything or controlled by anyone:
Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift.

2. someone who is adrift is confused about what to do in their life:
a young woman adrift in London

3. come adrift British English if something comes adrift, it is no longer fastened or attached to something:
Her hair was forever coming adrift from the pins she used to keep it in place.

4. two points/five seconds etc adrift (of somebody) two points, five seconds etc behind someone in a competition, race etc

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

adrift
adj.
VERBS be | come I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
cast sb/sth, cut sb/sth, set sb/sth Their boat had been set adrift.
PREP. from (figurative) She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.
in (figurative) cast adrift in a vulgar, materialistic society

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