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What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
Julianna Baggott

Meaning of "adrift" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADRIFT

adrift  [əˈdrɪft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADRIFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adrift can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ADRIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of adrift in the English dictionary

The first definition of adrift in the dictionary is floating without steering or mooring; drifting. Other definition of adrift is without purpose; aimless. Adrift is also off course or amiss.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADRIFT


drift
drɪft
festschrift
ˈfɛstˌʃrɪft
grift
ɡrɪft
rift
rɪft
serifed
ˈsɛrɪft
seriffed
ˈsɛrɪft
shrift
ʃrɪft
snowdrift
ˈsnəʊˌdrɪft
spendthrift
ˈspɛndˌθrɪft
spindrift
ˈspɪnˌdrɪft
spoondrift
ˈspuːnˌdrɪft
stardrift
ˈstɑːˌdrɪft
strift
strɪft
thrift
θrɪft
unthrift
ʌnˈθrɪft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADRIFT

adrenalized
adrenally
adrenergic
adrenergically
adrenochrome
adrenocortical
adrenocorticotrophic
adrenocorticotrophic hormone
adrenocorticotropic
adriamycin
Adrian
Adrian IV
Adrian Quist
Adrianople
Adrianopolis
Adriatic
Adriatic Sea
adroit
adroitly
adroitness

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADRIFT

airlift
continental drift
day shift
deadlift
face-lift
forklift
free gift
lift
longshore drift
makeshift
night shift
North Atlantic Drift
paradigm shift
shift
short shrift
sift
swift
swing shift
uplift
wage drift

Synonyms and antonyms of adrift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADRIFT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adrift» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adrift

Translation of «adrift» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADRIFT

Find out the translation of adrift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adrift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adrift» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 漂浮着的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

a la deriva
570 millions of speakers

English

adrift
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भटकते हुए
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هدى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

течению
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

à deriva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাসিতে ভাসিতে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à la dérive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hanyut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

treibend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

漂流して
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표류하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adrift
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bỏ mặc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலைதடுமாறி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुक्तपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

başıboş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alla deriva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dryfujący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

течією
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

derivă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραπαίει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

adrift
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

på drift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Adrift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adrift

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADRIFT»

The term «adrift» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.934 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADRIFT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adrift

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7 QUOTES WITH «ADRIFT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adrift.
1
Julianna Baggott
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
2
Fredrik Bajer
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
3
Dorothy Day
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
4
Georges Duhamel
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
5
Walter Mosley
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
6
Andrew O'Hagan
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
7
Jon Voight
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADRIFT»

Discover the use of adrift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adrift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an ...
Steven Callahan, 2002
2
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, administrators, policy makers, and parents—all of whom are implicated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture.
Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, 2011
3
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic ...
Now, Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience to explain why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home.
Leonard Sax, 2009
4
Adrift
David Garrett's already difficult family life falls apart when his mother is diagnosed with clinical depression, and he and his sister get sent to Aunt Jenn in Desolation Sound, British Columbia, but when they steal a dinghy and try to ...
Julie Burtinshaw, 2002
5
66 Days Adrift: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the ...
The author recalls his harrowing two-month ordeal in a rubber life raft with his wife after their sloop was rammed by whales and sunk, plunging them into a nightmare of survival on the high seas, weathering storms, exposure to the elements, ...
William Butler, Bill Butler, 2005
6
Adrift: The Cuban Raft People
From the infamous destruction of two unarmed private planes (sponsored by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue) by Cuban MIGs in February 1996, to an afterward on the media-driven frenzy over five-year-old Elián González, found ...
Alfredo Antonio Fernández, 2000
7
Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930
. . . She deserves praise for her demographic spadework, sensitive analysis, and engaging style. This is a valuable and rewarding book."—Nancy Woloch, Journal of American History "A state-of-the-art product of the new women's history. . .
Joanne J. Meyerowitz, 1991
8
Adrift
When Nichelle Drake is rescued from a lifeboat, adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, she has a serious case of sunburn, dehydration, and amnesia.
Susan R. Sweet, 2003
9
A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in ...
The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America Peter Steinfels. land opened the Baltimore Infirmary, a fifty-bed institution, in 1823, they invited the Sisters of Charity, founded by Elizabeth Seton fourteen years earlier, to manage and staff it  ...
Peter Steinfels, 2013
10
Six Records of a Life Adrift
His general introduction discusses themes in the work, the character of Shen Fu and Yun, Suzhou and the surrounding area, levels of society in the Qing, and the role of concubines.
Shen Fu, Graham Sanders, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADRIFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adrift is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Review: Sarah Lotz's 'Day Four' sends a cruise adrift in supernatural …
For all the popularity of cruises, there are some things about them that scare people: close quarters with lots of other people, the threat of ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
2
VIDEO: Baby adrift at sea saved by coast guard in Turkey's west
A 10-month-old baby drifted a kilometer from the coastline of Turkey's northwestern Çanakkale province until a coast guard boat arrived to save ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
3
This sea dog's looking a bit ruff: labrador cast adrift in kayak
Rosy the golden Labrador was sighted adrift on Loch Broom, Wester Ross, which eventually leads out to the Atlantic ocean. A local, ironically a ... «Deadline News, Jul 15»
4
Adrift anchors Ashore
Off of the Inn's success, in 2011 the couple purchased (and turned around) an 80-room hotel, now the Adrift Hotel and Spa with its top-floor ... «Coast Weekend, Jul 15»
5
Chongryon adrift at sea as succession battle looms
A key man in Japan-North Korea relations — Ho Jong Man, chairman of the pro-Pyongyang group Chyongryon, or General Association of ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
6
Adrift in a sea of change, to what do I cling?
In Buddhism, change is emphasized. At first to unnerve you, to shake you off the concept that anything can be held onto. Then, to comfort you, ... «Mountain View Journal, Jul 15»
7
With party adrift, PM is alone
In the Conservative TV ad, Stephen Harper is shown alone at his desk, late at night. The message: he's working hard for the Canadian people. «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
8
McClellan: Old boys' network or not, St. Louis region feels adrift
Personally, I think we're adrift. Imagine a barge broken loose of its moorings, no longer connected to a tug, just floating with the current waiting ... «STLtoday.com, Jun 15»
9
Where Greece, creditors are adrift
GREECE has missed its repayments deadline to the International Monetary Fund and its bailout program has expired - leaving Athens to seek ... «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
10
Jake Gyllenhaal Ran Adrift On His Way To Broadway Musical, Talks …
Jake Gyllenhaal Ran Adrift On His Way To Broadway Musical, Talks New Movie 'Southpaw'. Peter Black , Design & Trend Staff Writer; Jun, 30, ... «Design & Trend, Jun 15»

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