Adrift meaning

Adjective: adrift

Pronunciation: (u`drift)

Adrift meaning:

• floating without control and without anchor or mooring ( mooring = act of making fast a boat with anchors).

Adrift meaning:

• floating freely or not anchored
• Off course and wandering aimlessly

Quotations : Dorothy Day – Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Fredrik Bajer – A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Richard Halliburton – Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Bill Bailey – There’s a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They’re heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

George Karl – This is a harder game to play than most people think it is, where there’s a little bit of an energy adrift.

Steven Spielberg – These movies are asking sensitive questions about racial intolerance and Middle East politics. It’s been an amazing year, very much like 1968, ’69 and ’70, when you suddenly see all of these political movies coming out at the same time, out of the watershed of politics. Some of it is due to our own insecurity about the voices representing us in government right now. We feel like our government has set us adrift, and we’re trying to make our voices heard. We’re telling them to be worried about these things.

Tony D’Arcy – Last year he had similar difficulty and we thought he’d moved forward from that. So when he comes back from New Zealand we hope he’s on top of it. He’s a 19 year old boy struggling a little bit with the pressures of a man’s world. He feels adrift from his culture in New Zealand. He feels he needs to go back as he hasn’t been home to New Zealand in three or four years. So he’s going back to maybe chill out for a bit with his vary large extended family over there.

Sample sentences:

1. India is adrift and chaotic.
2. The survivors of storm were adrift in the boat for two weeks.
3. That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq and left its own population adrift.
4. We’ve been thirty points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it’s clear for everyone we’re a lot closer now.
5. The crew have been transferred to the police launch fearless and the yacht has been left adrift and the emergency beacon will continue to flash until it’s picked up by whoever.
6. Cage is frank about why he was drawn to the film. I was going through a divorce and was feeling adrift and vulnerable. I heard about the movie, and I thought it might be a way for me to work through those feelings.
7. It’s a rare moment when you get a housecleaning like this. It could presage a strong turnaround for an agency that’s been adrift for years if not decades.
8. What we’re seeing is someone who’s coming to the end of his final term as governor, and a majority of voters think the state is adrift.
9. These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.
10. This time last year we were a lot of points adrift and now we are only behind on goal difference. So it is a nice position to be in. We would have preferred to be top but finishing let us down.