All adrift synonyms
a·drift
A a adv adrift
- afloat — If someone or something is afloat, they remain partly above the surface of water and do not sink.
- amiss — If you say that something is amiss, you mean there is something wrong.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- unanchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- unmoored — to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- aimless — A person or activity that is aimless has no clear purpose or plan.
- purposeless — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- goalless — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- astray — out of the correct path or direction
- wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
adjective adrift
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- at loose ends — in an unsettled, disorganized, or confused condition
- lost — no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.