'adrift' definitions:
Definition of 'adrift'
From: WordNet
adverb
Floating freely; not anchored; "the boat wasset adrift"
adverb
Off course, wandering aimlessly; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"
adjective
Aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected]
adjective
Afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"
Synonyms of 'adrift'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abashed,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- afloat,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- alternating,
- amiss,
- amorphous,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- at sea,
- aweigh,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- capricious,
- cast-off,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- clear,
- clueless,
- confused,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distorted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- embarrassed,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fast and loose,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flawed,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- free,
- giddy,
- guessing,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immaterial,
- impertinent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- loose,
- lost,
- mazed,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- not at issue,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the subject,
- off the track,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- put-out,
- rambling,
- restless,
- rickety,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- self-contradictory,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- started,
- straying,
- turned around,
- unaccountable,
- unanchored,
- unbound,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undone,
- unessential,
- unfactual,
- unfastened,
- unfixed,
- unmoored,
- unorthodox,
- unpredictable,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstuck,
- untied,
- untrue,
- upset,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wide,
- wishy-washy,
- without a clue,
- wrong