adj
Meaning 1
Floating at random.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
adrift
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ə-drĭft'
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/əˈdɹɪft/
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rhymes with -ɪft
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adj
Meaning 2
Absent from his watch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, often, with-of
Examples
- The team were six points adrift of their rivals.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adverb
Meaning 5
off course, wandering aimlessly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
floating freely; not anchored
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the boat wasset adrift
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From a- + drift.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: a la deriva — floating at random
- Cornish: dilewys — floating at random
- Danish: drivende omkring — floating at random
- Finnish: tuuliajolla — floating at random
- French: à la dérive — floating at random
- German: abtreibend — floating at random
- Hindi: अपवाहित (apvāhit) — floating at random
- Italian: alla deriva — floating at random
- Malay: hanyut — floating at random
- Portuguese: à deriva — floating at random
- Romanian: în derivă — floating at random
- Russian: дрейфуюший (drejfujušij) — floating at random
- Spanish: a la deriva — floating at random
- Swedish: på drift — floating at random
- Swedish: utan mal — floating at random
- Finnish: tuuliajolla — in a drifting condition
- French: à la dérive — in a drifting condition
- German: abtreiben — in a drifting condition
- Italian: alla deriva — in a drifting condition
- Portuguese: à deriva — in a drifting condition
- Romanian: în derivă — in a drifting condition
- Russian: по течению (po tečeniju) — in a drifting condition
- Russian: дрейф (drejf) — in a drifting condition
- Spanish: a la deriva — in a drifting condition
Real reading context