Adrift

Word ADRIFT
Character 6
Hyphenation a drift
Pronunciations /əˈdɹɪft/

Definitions and meanings of "Adrift"

What do we mean by adrift?

Drifting or floating freely; not anchored. adverb & adjective

Without direction or purpose. adverb & adjective

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.

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

Floating at random. adjective

Absent from his watch. adjective

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

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

Floating freely; not anchored adverb

Off course, wandering aimlessly adverb

Afloat on the surface of a body of water adjective

Aimlessly drifting adjective

Floating at random.

(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.

(often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

To separate from something, somewhere. Adrift as in to drift away from. Urban Dictionary

That game that got shut down because of the monkeys at bossa studios. Urban Dictionary

Starting to take a shit in a public toilet when it's empty, but then someone else enters the toilets and you have to hold until they leave before you continue your business. the term comes from the same fear and loneliness felt by both those genuinely lost at sea and those holding a shit in a public restroom Urban Dictionary

When someone leaves their shit out and shortly thereafter it magically becomes your shit. Urban Dictionary

The same as cool your jets, basically meaning to calm down, or take it easy. Urban Dictionary

An game made by the indie game studio "bossa studios" Urban Dictionary

Gettin lost in some good memories Also a song by P.M. Dawn Urban Dictionary

Moving silently through colour shifts of shapes referencing the scene as bad Urban Dictionary

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The word "adrift" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only thing adrift is budgetary commitment from the former and current President and the lack of an Administrator. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His first escape attempt was thwarted by the thugs as Phillips remained adrift from the aid and cover of the US Navy, which sat restrained by an administration too cowardly to let slip the dogs of war. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In 1991 Dea Birkett spent four months living among the 38 residents of Pitcairn Island, where Fletcher Christian and other mutineers settled after casting Captain William Bligh adrift from the Bounty in 1789. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The law and the free institutions on which the West rightly prides itself grew up in a moral climate created by Christianity, but the technology that is a by-product of Western law and liberty has been cut adrift from the religious and cultural soil that nourished its origin. ❋ Unknown (1949)

A fourth mistake was the withholding of our wheat from world markets in 1929, with a view to forcing - one might as well be frank - higher prices, and the associated policy of cutting adrift from the established wheat trade selling agencies in Great Britain and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (1936)

The southern states are loud in vehement threats of secession, if the republican candidate is elected; but their bluster is really lamentably ludicrous, for they are without money, without credit, without power, without character – in short, sans everything, but so many millions of slaves, sans good numbers of whom they would also be the very moment they cut themselves adrift from the protection of the North. ❋ Unknown (1891)

I had a brother in Kingsbridge some four months ago almost pennyless, turned adrift from a French prison, with his bed & baggage to join his ship how he could. ❋ Unknown (1797)

My conversation with him must have been about the year 1886 or 1887 and he then said to me that he saw no reason why the Dominions, if they wished to cut themselves adrift from the Mother Country, should not do so; that the Mother Country was not interested in their fate and they were not interested in the fate of the Mother Country, and they had no interest in continuing the close alliance between us. ❋ Unknown (1921)

It’s as pleasant as it ever was, but it will never have the urgency it held for me when Katie was there, because I will never again be the mother of small children — abruptly cast adrift from the routines of adult life, cloistered, lonely. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Seriously, though, to me the striking thing about the Gingrich section of Jeffrey Goldberg’s profile of Republicans adrift is that for the self-proclaimed candidate of new ideas and new directions, Gingrich seems mighty short on actual new ideas for the country. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was now Mary's turn to feel that she was, for the first time in her life, about to be cut adrift -- adrift, that is, as a world is adrift, on the surest of paths, though without eyes to see. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The Afghanistan war, which Obama calls adrift, is now his, and a central part of the new strategy is to build up the Afghan army.

To be [adrift at sea] ❋ Carls. B (2014)

Person 1: [Damm], I miss [worlds adrift] Person 2: Yeah I hope they [bring it back] ❋ HahaEcksDee (2020)

Steve-"bro you were in that toilet for ages! what was [the deal] with that!?" Dan-"[Ah man], i ended up adrift at sea, the fear i felt was [unbearable]!" Steve- " i'm so sorry that happened to you" ❋ PaJoFo (2013)

Jimmy: Damn, Hayden! [Niko] left his new cover [on the bench]! Hayden: You know what they say Jimmy, [gear adrift is a gift]! ❋ JoeShitTheRagMan69 (2021)

"I can't believe he'd do such a [stupid thing], I'm going to kill him!" [Easy tiger], [don't let your nappy come adrift]". ❋ Gavin Appleby (2007)

Have you [played] worlds adrift? ❋ Safesoap (2018)

[Jimmothy]: Yo? You listenin’? Jimmothy JR: Nah, [I’m Set] [Adrift] on Memory Bliss, my bad dawg Jimmothy: It’s all good ❋ Den322 (2023)

Have [faith] can’t always live [estranged] from family aka [adrift] ❋ Snowflakes Melt Human Flesh (2019)

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