adverb & adjective. Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.

adverb & adjective. Without direction or purpose.

Floating at random; not fastened by any kind of moorings; at the mercy of winds and currents.

Hence Figuratively, swayed by any chance impulse; all abroad; at a loss.

adverb. Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

adjective. Floating at random.

adjective. Absent from his watch.

adjective. Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

adverb. In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

adverb. floating freely; not anchored

adverb. off course, wandering aimlessly

adjective. afloat on the surface of a body of water

adjective. aimlessly drifting

"They're spirits -- ghosts of sailors that drowned as long ago as when that cask went adrift from a sinkin 'ship, an' that's years an 'years, Miss, as anybody can see, lookin' at the size of the barnacles on it."

to turn adrift  

afloat  purposeless  

cast adrift  

Clift  Shift  Swift  clift  drift  

abashed  aberrant  abroad  afloat  afloat