Adrift

Adjective

 * 1) Floating at random.
 * So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
 * 1) (of a seaman) Absent from his watch; temporarily missing or absent without leave.
 * 2) Confused.

Adverb

 * 1) In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

Etymology
Prefix a- (for on) + drift.

Thesaurus
abashed; aberrant; abroad; afloat; all abroad; all off; all wrong; alternating; amiss; amorphous; askew; astray; at fault; at sea; aweigh; awry; beside the mark; beside the point; beside the question; bewildered; bothered; capricious; cast-off; changeable; changeful; clear; clueless; confused; corrupt; deceptive; defective; delusive; desultory; deviable; deviant; deviational; deviative; discomposed; disconcerted; dismayed; disoriented; distorted; distracted; distraught; disturbed; dizzy; eccentric; embarrassed; errant; erratic; erring; erroneous; extraneous; extrinsic; fallacious; false; fast and loose; faultful; faulty; fickle; fitful; flawed; flickering; flighty; flitting; floating; fluctuating; freakish; free; giddy; guessing; heretical; heterodox; illogical; illusory; immaterial; impertinent; impetuous; impulsive; in a fix; in a maze; in a pickle; in a scrape; in a stew; inadmissible; inapplicable; inapposite; inappropriate; incidental; inconsequent; inconsistent; inconstant; indecisive; infirm; irregular; irrelative; irrelevant; irresolute; irresponsible; loose; lost; mazed; mazy; mercurial; moody; nihil ad rem; nonessential; not at issue; not right; not true; off; off the subject; off the track; out; out-of-the-way; parenthetical; peccant; perturbed; perverse; perverted; put-out; rambling; restless; rickety; roving; scatterbrained; self-contradictory; shaky; shapeless; shifting; shifty; shuffling; spasmodic; spineless; started; straying; turned around; unaccountable; unanchored; unbound; uncertain; uncontrolled; undependable; undisciplined; undone; unessential; unfactual; unfastened; unfixed; unmoored; unorthodox; unpredictable; unproved; unreliable; unrestrained; unsettled; unstable; unstable as water; unstaid; unsteadfast; unsteady; unstuck; untied; untrue; upset; vacillating; vagrant; variable; vicissitudinary; vicissitudinous; volatile; wandering; wanton; wavering; wavery; wavy; wayward; whimsical; wide; wishy-washy; without a clue; wrong

Adjective

 * French: à la dérive
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: în derivă
 * Spanish: a la deriva

Adverb

 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: în derivă


 * Spanish: a la deriva

Related terms

 * cast adrift