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Adrift

//əˈdɹɪft// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Floating at random.

    "So on the sea she shall be set adrift."

  2. 2
    Absent from his watch.
  3. 3
    Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position. UK, often, with-of

    "The team were six points adrift of their rivals."

Adjective
  1. 1
    afloat on the surface of a body of water wordnet
  2. 2
    aimlessly drifting wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

    "things wore on till eight or nine o'clock, every thing getting adrift and being smashed, and every one on board jamming themselves up in corners or holding on to beams to prevent their going adrift likewise"

Adverb
  1. 1
    off course, wandering aimlessly wordnet
  2. 2
    floating freely; not anchored wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a- + drift.

Etymology 2

From a- + drift.

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