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# adrift

adjective and adverb (adrift)

«adrift» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Floating loose on water without being tied up or steered. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/#m1)
2. Lost, with no clear course, direction or purpose; not knowing where one is. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a boat or a person is cast adrift by the sea or the wind and must find land; «cast adrift» means set loose or abandoned.

### Examples

- The boat broke its rope and drifted adrift. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/#x1)
- The land cast him adrift. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/#x2)
- He was adrift far out at sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «adrift» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adrift/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«adrift» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/adrift.html) on Mova free.