adrift

1. 1.

   floating freely; not anchored

   “the boat was set adrift”
2. 2.

   off course, wandering aimlessly

   “there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift”

Other forms of adrift

comparative

adrifter·

superlative

adriftest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adrift

What does adrift mean?

adrift means "aimlessly drifting". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adrift?

adrift has 2 syllables: a-drift. The stress falls on "drift". In IPA it is /əˈdɹɪft/.

What is another word for adrift?

Close synonyms include afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adrift a common word?

adrift is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adrift?

1 word rhymes with adrift. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.