Meaning

3 senses
  1. Floating at random.

    abtreibend

    дрейфуюшийdrejfujušij

  2. Absent from his watch.

  3. (UK, often, with of)Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

    The team were six points adrift of their rivals.

More definitions
  • afloat on the surface of a body of water
  • aimlessly drifting

Examples

11 sentences
  1. We were adrift miles from shore.

  2. The mast broke and our ship went adrift.

    Щогла зламалась, і наш корабель почав дрейфувати. — Oleksandr_Tahayev

    ruМачта сломалась, и наше судно легло в дрейф. — Hellerick

    deDer Mast brach ab, und unser Schiff ließ sich treiben. — Dejo

  3. Sami survived 6 days adrift on the open ocean.

  4. The baby was set adrift on a grass raft.

  5. When we awoke, we were adrift on the open sea.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
floating at random:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
floating at random:

Origin

From a- + drift.

From a- + drift.

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Forms

more adrift, most adrift
Comparativemore adrift Lesson
Superlativemost adrift Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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