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adverb


(1)   Off course, wandering aimlessly
"There was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"
(2)   Floating freely; not anchored
"The boat wasset adrift"
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Adjective



  1. Floating at random.
    So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
  2. (of a seaman) Absent from his watch

Adverb



  1. In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
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