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ad. Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.

ad. Without direction or purpose: "The report is about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel” ( Tom Shales).

adj. Floating at random.

adj. Absent from his watch.

adj. Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

ad. In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

ad. Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Floating at random; not fastened by any kind of moorings; at the mercy of winds and currents.

Hence Figuratively, swayed by any chance impulse; all abroad; at a loss.

ad. floating freely; not anchored

ad. off course, wandering aimlessly

adj. afloat on the surface of a body of water

adj. aimlessly drifting

"They're spirits -- ghosts of sailors that drowned as long ago as when that cask went adrift from a sinkin 'ship, an' that's years an 'years, Miss, as anybody can see, lookin' at the size of the barnacles on it."

afloat    purposeless   

to turn adrift   

cast adrift   

afloat   

Clift    Shift    Swift    clift    drift    gift    lift    miffed    riffed    rift