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Webster 1913 Edition
Adrift
A-drift′
,adv.
& Adj.
[Pref.
a-
(for on
) + drift
.] Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
So on the sea shall be set
adrift
. Dryden.
Were from their daily labor turned
adrift
. Wordsworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adrift
ADRIFT'
,Adj.
Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift.
Definition 2024
adrift
adrift
English
Adjective
adrift (comparative more adrift, superlative most adrift)
- Floating at random.
- So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
- (of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
- (chiefly Britain, 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.
- 1996, David H. Begg, Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons After Half a Decade, International Monetary Fund, ISBN 1455282820:
- The Czech Republic in 1994-95, with a pegged nominal exchange rate and nominal deposit rates of 7 percent, was several percentage points adrift of the interest parity condition.
- 2006, Brian Long, Subaru Impreza: The Road Car & WRC Story, ISBN 1845840283, page 56:
- He did well, coming second, but Toyota and Mitsubishi were now neck-and-neck, with the Subaru team 38 points adrift of the leaders.
- 2012 April 18, Anthony Vickers, “Boro 0 Doncaster Rovers 0”, in (Please provide the title of the work), The Evening Gazette (Teeside):
- Boro were left needing snookers after a toothless goalless draw with Dead Men Walking Doncaster left them well adrift and fading in the chase for a Championship play-off place.
Translations
floating at random
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Adverb
adrift (comparative more adrift, superlative most adrift)
Translations
in a drifting condition
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