adrift Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite aimlessly drifting
    directionless; rudderless; planless; afloat; aimless; undirected.
  2. adjective satellite afloat on the surface of a body of water
    • after the storm the boats were adrift
  3. adverb floating freely; not anchored
    • the boat wasset adrift
  4. adverb off course, wandering aimlessly
    • there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift

WordNet

A*drift" adverb & adjective
Etymology
Pref. a- (for on) + drift.
Definitions
  1. Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
    So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden.
    Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

Webster 1913