adrift

a·drift  (-drft)

adv. & adj.

1. Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.

2. Without direction or purpose: "The report is about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel" (Tom Shales).

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adrift [əˈdrɪft]

adj (postpositive)

adv

1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) floating without steering or mooring; drifting

2. without purpose; aimless

3. Informal off course or amiss the project went adrift

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	adrift - aimlessly drifting                   afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected purposeless - not evidencing any purpose or goal
	2.	adrift - afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift" afloat - borne on the water; floating
Adv.	1.	adrift - floating freely; not anchored; "the boat wasset adrift"
	2.	adrift - off course, wandering aimlessly; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"

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adrift

adjective

1. drifting, afloat, cast off, unmoored, aweigh, unanchored They were spotted adrift in a dinghy.

2. aimless, goalless, directionless, purposeless She had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.

3. free, separate, divided, loose, severed, loosened, disconnected, unconnected, disjoined Three panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.

adverb

wrong, astray, off course, amiss, off target, wide of the mark They are trying to place the blame for a policy that has gone adrift.

Translations

adrift [əˈdrɪft] ADV

1. (esp Naut) → a la deriva
to be cast adrift (lit) (accidentally) → irse a la deriva; (deliberately) (also fig) → ser arrojado a la deriva
to come adrift [boat] → soltarse, irse a la deriva; [wire, rope] → soltarse, desprenderse
to be cut adrift → ser soltado a la deriva
to be set adrift → ser dejado a la deriva

2. (= directionless) → perdido
she felt adrift and isolated → se sentía perdida y aislada

3. (= awry) profits can be as much as £5m adrift → los beneficios pueden estar hasta 5 millones de libras por debajo de lo esperado
to go adrift [plan, scheme] → fallar, irse al garete

4. (Sport) to be five points/seconds adrift of → estar a cinco puntos/segundos de, ir cinco puntos/segundos a la zaga de

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adrift [əˈdrɪft]

adv

(in boat) → à la dérive
to set adrift [+ boat, crew] → mettre à la dérive

(= loose) to come adrift [wire, rope, fastening etc] → se détacher

to go adrift [plan] → faire naufrage

adj

(= floating free) [person, boat] → à la dérive
They spent three hours adrift in a dinghy
BUT Ils ont passé trois heures à dériver à bord d'un canot.

(= at a loss) [person] → à la dérive

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adrift

adv adj pred

(Naut) → treibend; to be adrift → treiben; to go adrift (lit) → sich losmachen or loslösen; (= go awry:) plan, scheme → schiefgehen; to set or cut a boat adrift → ein Boot losmachen

(fig) to come adrift (wire, hair etc) → sich lösen; (plans, scheme) → fehlschlagen; (theory) → zusammenbrechen; we are adrift on the sea of life → wir treiben dahin auf dem Meer des Lebens; he wandered through the city, lost and adrift → (ziellos und) verloren irrte er in der Stadt umher; you’re all adrift (inf) → da liegst du völlig verkehrt or falsch; after a month’s philosophy I felt all adrift → nach einem Monat Philosophie war ich vollkommen durcheinander; to cast or turn somebody adrift → jdn auf die Straße setzen

(Sport) to be 15 points/seconds adrift → 15 Punkte/Sekunden zurückliegen

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adrift [əˈdrɪft] adv (esp Naut) → alla deriva
to come adrift (wire, rope) → essersi staccato/a or sciolto/a

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adrift

adjectiv / adv adrift [əˈdrift]

drifting adrift on the open sea. drywend طَافِ، تَحْت رَحْمَة الرِّيَاح носен от течението unášený (proudem) i drift; drivende treiben περιπλανώμενος, ακυβέρνητος a la deriva triiviv, triivimas شناور tuuliajolla à la dérive נִסְחַף בַּזֶרֶם तैरता हुआ nošen vjetrom hányódó terkatung-katung, terapung-apung stjórnlaus, á reki alla deriva 漂って 표류하여 nešamas (pasroviui) viļņu varā; bez mērķa vai virziena hanyut op drift i drift, drivende unoszony na fali à deriva în derivă дрейфующий; по воле волн unášaný (prúdom) prepuščen vetrovom in tokovom prepušten (vodenoj) struji på drift, vind för våg ล่องลอย; ลอยไป başıboş 漂浮的 за течією بہتا ہوا ، بے بس، ماحول کے رحم و کرم پر lênh đênh 漂浮