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- Dictionarya·drift/əˈdrift/
adverb
- 1. so as to float without being either moored or steered: "a cargo ship went adrift" Similar
adjective
- 1. floating without being either moored or steered: "the seamen are adrift in lifeboats" Similar
- 2. failing to reach a target or winning position: informal British "they were only a point adrift at the break"
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The meaning of ADRIFT is without motive power and without anchor or mooring. How to use adrift in a sentence.
(of a boat) not fastened and moving with the sea and wind, or fig. not controlled and living without a clear purpose or direction: fig. Hopeful actors from small towns are often adrift in New York.
If something's adrift, it's floating, not tied down or anchored. A raft that's adrift on a river will float downstream. If a ship goes adrift, it meanders off course, simply traveling with the water rather than on a charted course.
Adrift definition: floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored. See examples of ADRIFT used in a sentence.
If something comes adrift, it is no longer attached to an object that it should be part of.
adjective. 1. drifting, afloat, cast off, unmoored, aweigh, unanchored They were spotted adrift in a dinghy. 2. aimless, goalless, directionless, purposeless She had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
no longer attached or fixed in the right position I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift. (figurative) She had been cut adrift from everything she had known. (figurative) Our plans had gone badly adrift.
If someone is adrift, they feel alone with no clear idea of what they should do.
ADRIFT definition: 1. If a boat is adrift, it floats around in the water and is not tied to anything: 2. to become…. Learn more.
Floating freely without being steered; not anchored; drifting. Webster's New World. Without any particular aim or purpose. Webster's New World. In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Wiktionary. Synonyms: wandering straying loose insecure derelict astray aimless afloat aweigh.
