adrift as an adjective: - 1
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as a adverb: - 1
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adrift
adjective
1 adrift
Aimlessly drifting.
synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected.
Roget 10:
irrelative†,
irrespective,
unrelated;
arbitrary;
independent,
unallied;
unconnected,
disconnected;
adrift,
isolated,
insular;
extraneous,
strange,
alien,
foreign,
outlandish,
exotic.
not comparable,
incommensurable,
heterogeneous;
unconformable
etc.
83.
irrelevant,
inapplicable;
not pertinent,
not to the,
purpose;
impertinent,
inapposite,
beside the mark,
a propos de bottes [Fr.];
aside from the purpose,
away from the purpose,
foreign to the purpose,
beside the purpose,
beside the question,
beside the transaction,
beside the point;
misplaced
etc.
(intrusive)
24;
traveling out of the record.
remote,
far-fetched,
out of the way,
forced,
neither here nor there,
quite another thing;
detached,
segregate;
disquiparant†.
multifarious;
discordant
etc.
24.
incidental,
parenthetical,
obiter dicta,
episodic.
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Roget 44:
disjoined
etc.
v.;
discontinuous
etc.
70;
multipartite†,
abstract;
disjunctive;
secant;
isolated
etc.
v.;
insular,
separate,
disparate,
discrete,
apart,
asunder,
far between,
loose,
free;
unattached,
unannexed,
unassociated,
unconnected;
distinct;
adrift;
straggling;
rift,
reft†.
[capable of being cut]
scissile [Chem],
divisible,
discerptible†,
partible,
separable.
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Roget 73:
unassembled
etc.
(assemble)
etc.
72;
dispersed
etc.
v.;
sparse,
dispread,
broadcast,
sporadic,
widespread;
epidemic
etc.
(general)
78;
adrift,
stray;
disheveled,
streaming.
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Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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Roget 699:
unskillful
etc.
698;
inexpert;
bungling
etc.
v.;
awkward,
clumsy,
unhandy,
lubberly,
gauche,
maladroit;
left-handed,
heavy-handed;
slovenly,
slatternly;
gawky.
adrift,
at fault.
inapt,
unapt;
inhabile [Fr.];
untractable†,
unteachable;
giddy
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
inconsiderate
etc.
(neglectful)
460;
stupid
etc.
499;
inactive
etc.
683;
incompetent;
unqualified,
disqualified,
ill-qualified;
unfit;
quackish;
raw,
green,
inexperienced,
rusty,
out of practice.
unaccustomed,
unused,
untrained
etc.
537,
uninitiated,
unconversant
etc.
(ignorant)
491†;
shiftless;
unstatesmanlike.
unadvised;
ill-advised,
misadvised;
ill-devised,
ill-imagined,
ill-judged,
ill-contrived,
ill-conducted;
unguided,
misguided;
misconducted,
foolish,
wild;
infelicitous;
penny wise and pound foolish
etc.
(inconsistent)
608.
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2 adrift
Afloat on the surface of a body of water.
adverb
1 adrift
2 adrift
Off course, wandering aimlessly.
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 ... show more.
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