adrift
adjective
1. aimlessly drifting
Similar word(s): purposeless, afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected
2. afloat on the surface of a body of water
- after the storm the boats were adrift
Similar word(s): afloat
Sentences with adrift as an adjective:
- So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
- The team were six points adrift of their rivals.
adverb
1. floating freely; not anchored
- the boat was set adrift
2. off course, wandering aimlessly
- there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift