adrift
adjective, adverb
Origin of adrift
Related Words for adrift
afloat, amiss, loose, drifting, unanchored, unmoored, aimless, purposeless, directionless, goalless, astray, erring, wrongExamples from the Web for adrift
Contemporary Examples of adrift
Adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.
Still, “They were my island of misfit toys,” she says, adrift.
The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is.
Each experience—like so many others in her life—left her wounded, weary, adrift.
Maya Angelou Knew How To Inspire As A Writer, Teacher, and Great Human BeingJoshua DuBois
May 28, 2014
On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard.
Historical Examples of adrift
But we were afraid to lose sight of the bridge, lest we should get all adrift.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
"I think if I were up there I'd cut us adrift," said Stanley grimly.
Then she introduced her daughter to Drake and sent them adrift through the rooms.
The ChristianHall Caine
We'd be adrift and out of sight of land if Mary-'Gusta went away.
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
Have a civil tongue, then, and don't provoke me to turn you adrift on the world.
One Of ThemCharles James Lever