Usually means: Moving slowly without specific direction.
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  1. driftingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. driftingly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. driftingly: Vocabulary.com
  4. driftingly: Dictionary.com
  5. driftingly: Wiktionary

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  1. driftingly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (driftingly)

▸ adverb:  In a way that drifts.

Similar:
driftily, driftlessly, waveringly, floatily, shiftingly, wanderingly, stragglingly, floatingly, swayingly, undulatingly, more...

Opposite:
steadily, firmly, resolutely, purposefully

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Similar:
driftily, driftlessly, waveringly, floatily, shiftingly, wanderingly, stragglingly, floatingly, swayingly, undulatingly, more...

Opposite:
steadily, firmly, resolutely, purposefully



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