Usually means: Lost, floating without direction, control.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. adrift: Merriam-Webster
  2. adrift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adrift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adrift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adrift: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adrift, adrift: Wordnik
  7. adrift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adrift: Wiktionary
  9. adrift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adrift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adrift: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adrift, adrift: Dictionary.com
  13. adrift: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adrift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ADRIFT, Adrift (Lost), Adrift (Stargate Atlantis), Adrift (Torchwood), Adrift (band), Adrift (video game), Adrift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adrift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adrift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adrift: Rhymezone
  19. adrift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adrift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Adrift: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. adrift: FreeDictionary.org
  23. adrift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. adrift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. adrift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. adrift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. adrift: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adrift: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adrift: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ADRIFT: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adrift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADRIFT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Adrift: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Floating at random.
adjective:  (of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
adjective:  (chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
adverb:  In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

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