 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adrift
adjective
1: aimlessly drifting [syn: {adrift(p)}, {afloat(p)}, {aimless},
{directionless}, {planless}, {rudderless}, {undirected}]
2: afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm
the boats were adrift" [syn: {adrift(p)}, {drifting(a)}]
adverb: off course; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow
gone adrift"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adrift \A*drift"\, adverb & a. [Pref. a- (for on) + drift.]
Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of
wind and waves. Also fig.
So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
Were from their daily labor turned adrift.
--Wordsworth.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "adrift":
abashed, aberrant, abroad, afloat, all abroad, all off, all wrong,
alternating, amiss, amorphous, askew, astray, at fault, at sea,
aweigh, awry, beside the mark, beside the point,
beside the question, bewildered, bothered, capricious, cast-off,
changeable, changeful, clear, clueless, confused, corrupt,
deceptive, defective, delusive, desultory, deviable, deviant,
deviational, deviative, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed,
disoriented, distorted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dizzy,
eccentric, embarrassed, errant, erratic, erring, erroneous,
extraneous, extrinsic, fallacious, false, fast and loose, faultful,
faulty, fickle, fitful, flawed, flickering, flighty, flitting,
floating, fluctuating, freakish, free, giddy, guessing, heretical,
heterodox, illogical, illusory, immaterial, impertinent, impetuous,
impulsive, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape,
in a stew, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate,
incidental, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
infirm, irregular, irrelative, irrelevant, irresolute,
irresponsible, loose, lost, mazed, mazy, mercurial, moody,
nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not right, not true, off,
off the subject, off the track, out, out-of-the-way, parenthetical,
peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, put-out, rambling,
restless, rickety, roving, scatterbrained, self-contradictory,
shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic,
spineless, started, straying, turned around, unaccountable,
unanchored, unbound, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable,
undisciplined, undone, unessential, unfactual, unfastened, unfixed,
unmoored, unorthodox, unpredictable, unproved, unreliable,
unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unstuck, untied, untrue, upset, vacillating,
vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical,
wide, wishy-washy, without a clue, wrong
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