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 Definitions of adrift  [əˈdrɪft]  

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Definition of 'adrift' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adv.) adrift
floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored.

2.  adrift
without aim, direction, or stability.

Etymology:  (1615–25)

Definition of 'adrift' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected
aimlessly drifting

2. (adverb) adrift(p)
afloat on the surface of a body of water
"after the storm the boats were adrift"

3. (adverb) adrift
floating freely; not anchored
"the boat wasset adrift"

4. (adverb) adrift
off course, wandering aimlessly
"there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"


Definition of 'adrift' Webster Dictionary 

1.  adrift
floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig


Translation of 'adrift' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: drifting
adrift on the open sea.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: drywend Arabic flag Arabic: طَافِ، تَحْت رَحْمَة الرّ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: носен от течението
Brazilian flag Brazilian: à deriva Czech flag Czech: unášený (proudem) German flag German: treiben
Danish flag Danish: i drift; drivende Greek flag Greek: περιπλανώμενος, ακυβέρνητ Spanish flag Spanish: a la deriva
Estonian flag Estonian: triiviv, triivimas Farsi flag Farsi: شناور Finnish flag Finnish: tuuliajolla
French flag French: à la dérive Hebrew flag Hebrew: נִסְחַף בַּזֶרֶם Hindi flag Hindi: तैरता हुआ
Croatian flag Croatian: nošen vjetrom Hungarian flag Hungarian: hányódó Indonesian flag Indonesian: terkatung-katung, terapun
Icelandic flag Icelandic: stjórnlaus, á reki Italian flag Italian: alla deriva Japanese flag Japanese: 漂って
Korean flag Korean: 표류하여 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nešamas (pasroviui) Latvian flag Latvian: viļņu varā; bez mērķa vai
Malay flag Malay: hanyut Dutch flag Dutch: :op drift Norwegian flag Norwegian: i drift, drivende
Polish flag Polish: unoszony na fali Persian flag Persian: شناور Pashto flag Pashto: بی هدفه حرکت، داوبو په سر
Portuguese flag Portuguese: à deriva Romanian flag Romanian: în derivă Russian flag Russian: дрейфующий; по воле волн
Slovak flag Slovak: unášaný (prúdom) Slovenian flag Slovenian: prepuščen vetrovom in tok Serbian flag Serbian: prepušten (vodenoj) struj
Swedish flag Swedish: på drift, vind för våg Thai flag Thai: ล่องลอย; ลอยไป Turkish flag Turkish: başıboş
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 漂浮的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: за течією Urdu flag Urdu: بہتا ہوا ، بے بس، ماحول ک
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lênh đênh Chinese flag Chinese: 漂浮的(地)

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