adrift 音标拼音: [ədr'ɪft]
ad . 漂流地
a . 漂泊的
漂流地漂泊的
adrift adv 1 :
floating freely ;
not anchored ; "
the boat wasset adrift "
2 :
off course ,
wandering aimlessly ; "
there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift "
adj 1 :
aimlessly drifting [
synonym : {
adrift (
p )}, {
afloat (
p )},
{
aimless }, {
directionless }, {
planless }, {
rudderless },
{
undirected }]
2 :
afloat on the surface of a body of water ; "
after the storm the boats were adrift "
Adrift \
A *
drift "\,
adv . &
a . [
Pref .
a - (
for on )
drift .]
Floating at random ;
in a drifting condition ;
at the mercy of wind and waves .
Also fig .
[
1913 Webster ]
So on the sea shall be set adrift . --
Dryden .
[
1913 Webster ]
Were from their daily labor turned adrift .
--
Wordsworth .
[
1913 Webster ]
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "
adrift ":
abashed ,
aberrant ,
abroad ,
afloat ,
all abroad ,
all off ,
all wrong ,
alternating ,
amiss ,
amorphous ,
askew ,
astray ,
at fault ,
at sea ,
aweigh ,
awry ,
beside the mark ,
beside the point ,
beside the question ,
bewildered ,
bothered ,
capricious ,
cast -
off ,
changeable ,
changeful ,
clear ,
clueless ,
confused ,
corrupt ,
deceptive ,
defective ,
delusive ,
desultory ,
deviable ,
deviant ,
deviational ,
deviative ,
discomposed ,
disconcerted ,
dismayed ,
disoriented ,
distorted ,
distracted ,
distraught ,
disturbed ,
dizzy ,
eccentric ,
embarrassed ,
errant ,
erratic ,
erring ,
erroneous ,
extraneous ,
extrinsic ,
fallacious ,
false ,
fast and loose ,
faultful ,
faulty ,
fickle ,
fitful ,
flawed ,
flickering ,
flighty ,
flitting ,
floating ,
fluctuating ,
freakish ,
free ,
giddy ,
guessing ,
heretical ,
heterodox ,
illogical ,
illusory ,
immaterial ,
impertinent ,
impetuous ,
impulsive ,
in a fix ,
in a maze ,
in a pickle ,
in a scrape ,
in a stew ,
inadmissible ,
inapplicable ,
inapposite ,
inappropriate ,
incidental ,
inconsequent ,
inconsistent ,
inconstant ,
indecisive ,
infirm ,
irregular ,
irrelative ,
irrelevant ,
irresolute ,
irresponsible ,
loose ,
lost ,
mazed ,
mazy ,
mercurial ,
moody ,
nihil ad rem ,
nonessential ,
not at issue ,
not right ,
not true ,
off ,
off the subject ,
off the track ,
out ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
parenthetical ,
peccant ,
perturbed ,
perverse ,
perverted ,
put -
out ,
rambling ,
restless ,
rickety ,
roving ,
scatterbrained ,
self -
contradictory ,
shaky ,
shapeless ,
shifting ,
shifty ,
shuffling ,
spasmodic ,
spineless ,
started ,
straying ,
turned around ,
unaccountable ,
unanchored ,
unbound ,
uncertain ,
uncontrolled ,
undependable ,
undisciplined ,
undone ,
unessential ,
unfactual ,
unfastened ,
unfixed ,
unmoored ,
unorthodox ,
unpredictable ,
unproved ,
unreliable ,
unrestrained ,
unsettled ,
unstable ,
unstable as water ,
unstaid ,
unsteadfast ,
unsteady ,
unstuck ,
untied ,
untrue ,
upset ,
vacillating ,
vagrant ,
variable ,
vicissitudinary ,
vicissitudinous ,
volatile ,
wandering ,
wanton ,
wavering ,
wavery ,
wavy ,
wayward ,
whimsical ,
wide ,
wishy -
washy ,
without a clue ,
wrong
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