Definitions for adrift

adrift a·drift

Spelling: [uh-drift]
IPA: /əˈdrɪft/

Adrift is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in adrift (adfirt).

Definitions for adrift

adjective, adverb

  1. floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored:
  2. lacking aim, direction, or stability.

Origin of adrift

First recorded in 1615-25; a-1 + drift

Examples for adrift

The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is.

Have a civil tongue, then, and don't provoke me to turn you adrift on the world.

But we were afraid to lose sight of the bridge, lest we should get all adrift.

"I think if I were up there I'd cut us adrift," said Stanley grimly.

We'd be adrift and out of sight of land if Mary-'Gusta went away.

Each experience—like so many others in her life—left her wounded, weary, adrift.

On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard.

Then she introduced her daughter to Drake and sent them adrift through the rooms.

adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.

Still, “They were my island of misfit toys,” she says, adrift.

Word Value for adrift
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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