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Definition of Be adrift
1. Verb. Be in motion due to some air or water current. "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Related verbs: Float, Drift
Specialized synonyms: Waft, Tide, Stream
Derivative terms: Blow, Drift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Be Adrift
Literary usage of Be adrift
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"But he would be married soon, perhaps, and then she would be adrift on the world.
But adrift ! No, there was no chance of that. Surely there was one heart ..."
2. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"To flow ; to move, pass, or run as a fluid ; to be adrift, or carried by the
current ; to be forfeited, as a pawn ; to miscarry, to stray. ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"The supreme dread of every one who cares for the good of nation or race is that
men should be adrift for want of an anchorage for their convictions. ..."
4. A manual of yacht and boat sailing by Dixon Kemp (1880)
"Also a vessel is Raid to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, warps,
&e. The term is also applied to loose spars rolling about the deck; ..."
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