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adrift

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a⋅drift

  [uh-drift]
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–adjective, adverb
1. floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored: The survivors were adrift in the rowboat for three days.
2. lacking aim, direction, or stability.
Origin:
1615–25; a- 1 + drift
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a·drift   (ə-drĭft')   
adv.   & adj.

  1. Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.

  2. Without direction or purpose: "The report is about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel" (Tom Shales).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

adrift 
1624, from a- (1) "on" + drift (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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