Adrift

Definitions: Adrift

Adrift

Adjective

1. Aimlessly drifting.

2. Afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift".

Adverb

1. Off course; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adrift" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Adrift \A*drift"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- (for on) drift.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Adrift

Abrogation

Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack.

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Disjunction

Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate).

Adverb: separately; Adjective: one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.

Adjective: disjoined; Verb: discontinuous; multipartite, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; Verb: insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Irrelation

Adjective: irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.

Liberation

Verb: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve; (acquit).

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds;

Adjective: unassembled; (see assemble; ); dispersed; Verb: sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic; (general); adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.

Uncertainty

In a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the track; ignorant.; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus; puzzled; Verb: lost, abroad, d_sorient_; distracted, distraught.

Unskillfulness

Adrift, at fault.

Crosswords: Adrift

Adrift on this ocean ("MIXED EMOTIONS"; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Diamonds Adrift (1921)

Souls Adrift (1917)

Cast Adrift (1917)

Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)

Hearts Adrift (1914)

Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (performing artist: P.M. Dawn)

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Books

• 117 Days Adrift (World of Cruising) (reference)

• Adrift in a Vanishing City (reference)

• Adrift on the Nile (reference)

• Capsized/the True Story of Four Men Adrift for 119 Days (reference)

• Evidence Law Adrift (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A NATION ADRIFT A Chronicle of America's Providential Heritage (reference)

• Adrift (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Eyes Adrift (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pancake ice adrift on the Ross Sea.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Wearing the Medal of Honor he received in recognition of his heroism in securing a depth charge that had come adrift on board USS Remlik (SP-157) during a heavy gale on 17 December 1917.Credit: NAVY.

Halftone photo from Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 120. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism when he secured a depth charge that had come adrift on board USS Remlik (SP-157) during a heavy gale on 17 December 1917.Credit: NAVY.

Secures a depth charge that came adrift on the after deck of USS Remlik (SP-157) during a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay, 17 December 1917. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroism on this occasion. Painting by James H. Daugherty, circa 1918.Credit: NAVY.

Secures a depth charge that came adrift on the after deck of USS Remlik (SP-157) during a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay, 17 December 1917. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroism on this occasion. Painting by James H. Daugherty, circa 1918.Credit: NAVY.

Adrift in spite of rock and tempests roar ... / / Coffin.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. (reference)

It would be criminal madness to cast it adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Zeal without prudence is like a ship adrift.

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Expressions using "adrift": be adrift ♦ be adrift in a boat ♦ be all adrift ♦ break adrift ♦ come adrift ♦ cut adrift ♦ go adrift ♦ To turn adrift ♦ turn adrift ♦ turn smb. adrift. Additional references.

Afrikaan

dryf (actuate, be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, float, impel, shoo, swim). (various references)

Albanian

në mëshirë të fatit, e paankoruar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏بلا هدف (aimless, aimlessly, purposeless), ‏بجرف البحر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

носен от течението, без котва, без посока. (various references)

Chinese 

漂流. (various references)

Czech

vydaný na pospas, unášený, nezakotvený. (various references)

Danish

i drift (drifting, on stream), drivende (drifting). (various references)

Dutch

afdrijvend (drifting), op drift (drifting). (various references)

Esperanto

drivi (be adrift, drift). (various references)

Faeroese

reka (be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, flow, impel, shoo). (various references)

Farsi 

غوطه ور(روی اب), سرگردان (Astray, Discursive, Erratic, Gadabout, Rambler, Strafe, Straggle, Stray, Wanderer), اواره (Gadabout, Immigrant, Straggle, Tramp, Wanderer), شناور (Afloat, Buoyant), دستخوش طوفان , بدون هدف . (various references)

Finnish

tuuliajolla (drifting). (various references)

French

� la dérive. (various references)

German

treibend (drifting, floating, impelling, impulsive, impulsively, propelling, wreaking). (various references)

Greek 

έρμαιο των κυμάτων (drifting), έρμαιο (drifting, waif), ερμαίοσ, επιπλέων εισ την φόραν των κυμάτων, λυτόσ (loose, soluble, solvable), ανεμοδαρμένοσ (storm beaten, weather beaten, wind swept, windswept). (various references)

Hebrew 

עם זרם. (various references)

Hungarian

sodródva, hányódva, szelek játékának kitéve, hullámok játékának kitéve. (various references)

Indonesian

terapung (afloat, drifting about, floating about), hanyut. (various references)

Italian

alla deriva (drifting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

漂流者 (castaway, person adrift on the sea). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょうりゅうしゃ (castaway, person adrift on the sea). (various references)

Manx

rouaillagh (delirious, devious, erring, incoherent, itinerant, prowler, rambling), lesh y gheay (leeward), gimmee lesh yn troa, er shaghryn (astray, betrayed, bewildered, deviating, erring, erroneous, lost, stray). (various references)

Pig Latin

adriftay

Portuguese

� deriva (diverted, drifting, run-away). (various references)

Romanian

în voia valurilor (afloat), în voia sorţii. (various references)

Russian 

по течению. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vodena struja, prepušteno slučaju, nasumice (blindfold, pell mell, random, random: at random, venture: at a venture). (various references)

Spanish

a la deriva (drifting). (various references)

Swedish

på drift (afloat). (various references)

Thai

ปล่อยให้ลอยไป (set adrift). (various references)

Turkish

akıntıya kapılmış, serseri (beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), rüzgâra kapılmış, kendi haline bırakılmış, başıboş (footloose, idle, idled, rambling, roving, straggling, straggly, stray, strayed, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Ukranian 

що пливе за течі�"ю, за течі�"ю, за водою, без керма і без вітрил (anchorless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trôi giạt, lênh đênh trôi giạt, lênh đênh. (various references)

Misspellings

"Adrift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addrift, adrcit, agrif, ardiff, Ardito, arif, Ariff, atrit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: afrit, draft, drift, triad.

-2 letters: adit, airt, arid, daft, dart, dirt, dita, drat, fair, fard, fart, fiar, fiat, frat, frit, raft, raid, rift, trad.

-3 letters: aft, aid, air, ait, arf, art, dit, fad, far, fat, fid, fir, fit, rad, rat, ria, rid, rif, tad, tar.

-4 letters: ad, ai, ar, at, fa, id, if, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: fatbird, indraft.

+2 letters: diffract, draftier, draftily, drafting, driftage, fatbirds, indrafts, ratified, tariffed.

+3 letters: airlifted, antidraft, antifraud, diffracts, draffiest, draftiest, draftings, driftages, filtrated, firsthand, floriated, gratified, headfirst, infarcted, infracted, ingrafted, threadfin.

+4 letters: affrighted, bifurcated, breadfruit, defoliator, diffracted, draftiness, driveshaft, fabricated, factorized, farsighted, federalist, federating, federation, federative, fimbriated, fluoridate, foredating, fornicated, fractioned, fratricide, handicraft, hardfisted, infuriated, interfaced, isografted, misgrafted, pathfinder, redrafting, reinflated, stratified, threadfins, trafficked, transfixed.

+5 letters: breadfruits, deferential, defibrinate, defloration, defoliators, deformation, deformative, differentia, diffracting, diffraction, driveshafts, faultfinder, federalists, federations, feudatories, fibrillated, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fraternized, fratricidal, fratricides, giftwrapped, handicrafts, infiltrated, pathfinders, redefeating, trifurcated, vociferated.

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