ADRIFT Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

adrift

adjective

Definition of adrift

as in deserted

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Recent Examples of adrift Two fishermen were rescued Wednesday after floating adrift more than 100 miles off the coast of Mexico with no food or water for five days, the Mexican navy announced. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Urushadze presents a sympathetic portrait of Niaz, a man who once embodied a certain type of swaggering masculinity but now seems adrift in the modern world. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 Vytas, living at home with his parents and adrift, volunteers to pack supplies and joins performance-art protests covered in red paint, using the experience in part to get his mojo back as a creative. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026 The graphic below shows each squad’s market value, as estimated by German website Transfermarkt, with Hull cast far adrift. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Since then, the 10,800-pound booster has been adrift in orbit. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026 The group reportedly alerted passengers that the captain had lost control of the vessel and the ship was traveling adrift, according to La Repubblica. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026 That feeling of being adrift without knowing where to turn is what the filmmakers built the movie around. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Her Maggie and Morgan’s Negan aren’t simply two survivors adrift in the Walking Dead’s post-apocalyptic hellscape, trying to scrape a meager existence together. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift

Adjective

Among all the far-off places, and all the deserted and unknown cities, among all the lawless, godless regions, the Guayrá was an oasis.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
The red-brick Southeast Lighthouse, perched atop the Mohegan Bluffs, is all but deserted.

— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of deserted

Adjective

More than three decades after the wars, former Balkan foes remain divided over his role.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
City and county leaders remain divided over negotiations, including how cases should be handled through Mableton's municipal court.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of divided

Adjective

The funding infusion represents the second significant capital raised toward the sweeping project, which so far has involved entities connected to Mehta purchasing half a dozen properties on three blocks of Fillmore between Clay and Pine streets, including the forsaken theater.

— Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
Swift rewrites the forsaken lover's fate through her own lens.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

Definition of forsaken

Adjective

Investors and analysts are increasingly looking to other parts of the market, both to find neglected sources of value and to start assuming a defensive posture against a possible downturn.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of neglected

Adjective

By the time viewers reach hour 15, the staff has spent an entire shift navigating a cyberattack that forces the emergency department to abandon digital systems, a nonstop influx of Fourth of July emergencies and an abandoned baby.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 June 2026

Definition of abandoned

Adjective

The Panthers finished 3-1, after all, and only threw in one real stinker — a disjointed loss at Buffalo.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2026
The analyst added that the market for sportswear, broadly, remains crowded and disjointed, which could pose challenges to the firms' bids to improve their businesses and boost their stocks.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of disjointed

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