drift off

Questions about drift off

What does drift off mean?

drift off means "change from a waking to a sleeping state".

What is another word for drift off?

Close synonyms include fall asleep, dope off, flake out, nod off, drop off. 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 drift off a common word?

drift off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.