Definition for Adrift:

• Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Synonyms for Adrift:

• adj.

  •afloat (adjective)
  • most drifting,
  • more drifting.
  •asea (adjective)
  • be fuddled,
  • most sailing,
  • more sailing,
  • be-fuddled.
  •astray (adjective)
  • more afield,
  • most adrift,
  • most afield,
  • off course,
  • off mark,
  • off the mark,
  • more adrift.
  •disoriented (adjective)
  • out of joint,
  • out-of-joint,
  • not adjusted,
  • all at sea,
  • off-beam.
  •friendless (adjective)
  • all alone,
  • all by one's self,
  • without ties.
  •loose (adjective)
  • uncertain.
  •lost (adjective)
  • cast away,
  • out the window,
  • unredeemed,
  • irrecoverable,
  • irretrievable,
  • nowhere to be found,
  • at sea,
  • kiss goodbye,
  • fallen between cracks,
  • gone astray.
  •motiveless (adjective)
  • chancy,
  • fanciful,
  • unmethodical,
  • fleeting,
  • haphazard,
  • motiveless,
  • random,
  • flighty,
  • rambling,
  • Flitting,
  • careless,
  • volatile,
  • indecisive,
  • nonsystematic,
  • reasonless,
  • spastic,
  • irregular,
  • impulsive,
  • Systemless,
  • wayward,
  • capricious,
  • whimsical,
  • arbitrary,
  • wandering,
  • ambivalent,
  • sporadic,
  • fickle.
  •off-center (adjective)
  • off-target,
  • far off.

• adv.

  •all (adverb)
  • adrift.

• v.

  •confused (verb)
  • bewildered.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • buoyant,
  • buoyancy,
  • forlorn,
  • shut off,
  • flotation,
  • stray,
  • behind,
  • lonely,
  • bereft,
  • undone,
  • blue-ribbon,
  • nip and tuck,
  • alone,
  • isolated,
  • alienated,
  • prize-winning,
  • abandoned,
  • lonesome,
  • estranged,
  • winningest,
  • unconnected,
  • rival,
  • award-winning,
  • float.
  •
  • winning,
  • desolate.
  •away
  • abroad.
  •Other relevant words:
  • disconcerted,
  • epidemic,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • unbind,
  • divagate,
  • started,
  • sidetrack,
  • manumit,
  • changeable,
  • erratic,
  • parenthetical,
  • digress,
  • defective,
  • part,
  • cut,
  • perverse,
  • reject,
  • inappropriate,
  • unloose,
  • isolate,
  • end,
  • widespread,
  • in two,
  • vagabond,
  • let slip,
  • inconsistent,
  • abstract,
  • unattached,
  • inapposite,
  • irresolute,
  • distorted,
  • one by one,
  • sparse,
  • bothered,
  • disconnected,
  • runabout,
  • tack,
  • in the abstract,
  • piecemeal,
  • Faultful,
  • discomposed,
  • Disenthrall,
  • foreign,
  • enfranchise,
  • faulty,
  • distracted,
  • embarrassed,
  • scatterbrained,
  • steer clear of,
  • bushed,
  • baffled,
  • dispread,
  • dawdle,
  • infirm,
  • aberrant,
  • extrinsic,
  • outlandish,
  • throw up,
  • enlarge,
  • heretical,
  • discharge,
  • sweep away,
  • streaming,
  • moody,
  • impertinent,
  • peccant,
  • shapeless,
  • wander,
  • flickering,
  • Non-essential,
  • impetuous,
  • disengage,
  • changeful,
  • disband,
  • wanton,
  • fitful,
  • at a loss,
  • undependable,
  • wide,
  • fluctuating,
  • shifting,
  • unaccountable,
  • all abroad,
  • brush off,
  • amorphous,
  • unpredictable,
  • awry,
  • levitate,
  • unoccupied,
  • clueless,
  • confused,
  • incidental,
  • keep apart,
  • detach,
  • nihil ad rem,
  • shaky,
  • punish,
  • at fault,
  • multipartite,
  • puzzled,
  • fluctuate,
  • in a pickle,
  • straggling,
  • deviative,
  • irresponsible,
  • delusive,
  • mystified,
  • Reft,
  • illusory,
  • variable,
  • secant,
  • unrestrained,
  • unbound,
  • beside the point,
  • divorce,
  • rift,
  • boycott,
  • disjoined,
  • betwixt and between,
  • off,
  • Tralineate,
  • eject,
  • affranchise,
  • throw out,
  • veer,
  • predominate,
  • throw,
  • ramble,
  • mazed,
  • wishy-washy,
  • disjunctive,
  • deviant,
  • unravel,
  • send packing,
  • Unsteadfast,
  • turn away,
  • step aside,
  • all off,
  • spasmodic,
  • distraught,
  • mazy,
  • linger,
  • unstable,
  • distinct,
  • wavering,
  • whisk off,
  • unlock,
  • send away,
  • discrete,
  • abstractedly,
  • roving,
  • discard,
  • whisk away,
  • beside the question,
  • not to the purpose,
  • Irrelative,
  • separate,
  • absolve,
  • erroneous,
  • out,
  • get rid of,
  • brush away,
  • Vicissitudinous,
  • discontinuous,
  • let out,
  • restless,
  • dodge,
  • cover,
  • Unannexed,
  • buggy,
  • unassociated,
  • emancipate,
  • deliver,
  • unsure,
  • sidle,
  • diverge,
  • dizzy,
  • disunite,
  • unproved,
  • out of it,
  • wheel,
  • worry,
  • inconsequent,
  • guessing,
  • parenthetic,
  • inadmissible,
  • in a stew,
  • untied,
  • cast-off,
  • false,
  • at,
  • inapplicable,
  • sulk,
  • unsteady,
  • disorientated,
  • heterodox,
  • independent,
  • unfactual,
  • vacillate,
  • unessential,
  • fallacious,
  • ease off,
  • giddy,
  • immaterial,
  • acquit,
  • unrelated,
  • unchain,
  • shuffling,
  • aimlessly floating,
  • in a fog,
  • shovel out,
  • segregate,
  • vagrant,
  • bounce,
  • beside the mark,
  • upset,
  • disenthral,
  • asunder,
  • alternating,
  • Anchorless,
  • push,
  • release,
  • put out,
  • uncontrolled,
  • insecure,
  • freakish,
  • set free,
  • helpless,
  • rickety,
  • mercurial,
  • desultory,
  • at a nonplus,
  • inconstant,
  • cast out,
  • in a maze,
  • liberate,
  • off the subject,
  • turn off,
  • spineless,
  • dispersed,
  • pack off,
  • banish,
  • cut adrift,
  • unfastened,
  • irrespective,
  • eccentric,
  • off the track,
  • unorthodox,
  • lurk,
  • let go,
  • far between,
  • all wrong,
  • cast adrift,
  • turn adrift,
  • bow out,
  • askew,
  • aside from,
  • illogical,
  • rescind,
  • extraneous,
  • let loose,
  • throw aside,
  • not at issue,
  • disturbed,
  • turn aside,
  • unguided,
  • aweigh,
  • hesitate,
  • fix,
  • turn away from,
  • Dispart,
  • fly,
  • unsettled,
  • disheveled,
  • dismayed,
  • disjoin,
  • abashed,
  • without a clue,
  • corrupt,
  • strange,
  • nonessential,
  • send off,
  • self-contradictory,
  • sack,
  • confounded,
  • perplexed,
  • undisciplined,
  • throw away,
  • insulate,
  • cast aside,
  • errant,
  • wind,
  • unstuck,
  • general,
  • send to Coventry,
  • perverted,
  • deceptive,
  • free,
  • flawed,
  • unassembled,
  • roadster,
  • disconnect,
  • unreliable,
  • in a cloud,
  • in a scrape,
  • undecided,
  • wavy,
  • straggle,
  • Unallied,
  • clear,
  • not right,
  • vacillating,
  • unemployed,
  • Dispair,
  • wavery,
  • unfaithful,
  • drift,
  • floating,
  • alien,
  • irrelevant,
  • fire,
  • disparate,
  • dismiss,
  • disentangle,
  • turned around,
  • uncommitted,
  • ignorant,
  • unpack,
  • sweep out,
  • straying,
  • expel,
  • rove,
  • perturbed,
  • separately,
  • yaw,
  • asea,
  • dissociate,
  • undo,
  • twist,
  • Unstaid,
  • untrue,
  • insular,
  • neglectful,
  • meander,
  • in twain,
  • shifty,
  • severally,
  • broadcast,
  • Vicissitudinary,
  • hang,
  • unfixed,
  • dwell,
  • go astray,
  • hover,
  • shy,
  • apart,
  • exotic,
  • abrogate,
  • throw overboard.

Paraphrases for Adrift:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    drift.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    drift.

Antonyms for Adrift:

• adv.

  • floating out of control
    purposeful, tied down, Anchored, stable, determined.

• adv. & a.

  • Other antonyms:
    aground.

Adrift Sentence Examples:

• Our stores and the various articles we brought on the raft were now hoisted on board, and the structure which had cost us so much pains to build was cast adrift.

• You wouldn't have me turn the child adrift on the world again, would you, Clemantiny?"

Homophones for Adrift:

• atharva-veda, attribute, atropidae, atrophied.