adrift
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5.6
- adjective
- /əˈdrɪft/
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a la deriva
- Without a clear plan, she wandered through life adrift and lacking direction.
- feel adrift
- find yourself adrift
- cast adrift
It's this feeling of of being adrift where nothing really means anything.
- It's this feeling of of being adrift where nothing really means anything.
- Remember Eigen's description of Kurt's documentary about a single lost soul adrift on the planet?
- Like, you know, people feel lonely, they feel adrift.
- So basically people whose mind is uncontrollable, who have kind of gone adrift in specific locations of their psyche.
- The constant chaos leaves us adrift.
- But she, you know, she's, you could see her as kind of like a, a soul just adrift.
- And you know, there's just, I never, I, I'm always cast adrift if I don't know specifically what show I'm looking for.
- But the, the violence that does to establish institutions and customs and norms sets a lot of people adrift.
- That being said, Scorpios don't really love to sleep around nor do they take sex casually, so until they find their soul match, a Scorpio can feel a little adrift without a partner.
- He was with his father and, and he said he was adrift.
- What dovetailed nicely was that my life was in flux and I was adrift.
Examples
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But the feeling of being cut adrift would still prevail in Atlantic Canada.
Academic text (1996) -
When I started this project, I was feeling a bit adrift, lost at sea, so to speak, without motivation or impetus to do the work I'm supposed to.
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It's this feeling of of being adrift where nothing really means anything.
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* All alone and adrift, * no one else in sight.
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If you find yourself adrift in an ocean of possibilities, ask yourself:
Academic text (2010) -
I don't want to feel adrift in some nebulous middle ground.
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Without Larissa beside him, Chemayev felt adrift, cut off from energy and purpose.
Fiction book (2001) -
Adult mentors serve as beacons of hope for young people adrift in an uncertain world.
Academic text (1997) -
Japan, for its part, has been politically adrift since Junichiro Koizumi stepped down as prime minister in 2006.
Academic text (2012) -
Without the interactions incumbent on family ties, one tends to feel adrift, lacking the impulse of loyalty to family heritage.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
13
3.6
Not having a clear goal or plan
7
4.2
Drifting without a clear direction, often about people or plans
4
6.0
Having no clear aim or plan
4
7.5
Being without clear direction or a leader
3
7.0
Not held in place and often feels unstable or uncertain
2
7.2
Feeling unsure what to do and not busy
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6.1
Not having a clear aim or plan in what you do
1
7.2
Having no plan or clear aim
1
7.8
A situation with no decision or guidance that leaves people unsure
Not having clear plans or goals
Moving without a fixed direction or plan
Not having a clear direction, goal or plan
Antonyms
How Purposeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
adrift = drift (semi-transparent) = a + drift
The prefix 'a-' suggests 'in a state of', but the specific meaning of being without direction is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Adrift comes from a- ('on') and drift ('to be carried along'), the same root you see in driftwood. That's why adrift can also mean 'carried without direction' or 'aimless', like a ship or a mind with no clear path.