Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adrift"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adrift \A*drift"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- (for on) + drift.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adrift
adj 1: aimlessly drifting [syn: {adrift(p)}, {afloat(p)}, {aimless},
{directionless}, {planless}, {rudderless}, {undirected}]
2: afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm
the boats were adrift" [syn: {adrift(p)}, {drifting(a)}]
adv : off course; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow
gone adrift"
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