1. adrift - Adjective
2. adrift - Adverb
4. adrift - Adjective Satellite
Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. Toni Morrison
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble. Cormac McCarthy
When the cosmos wakes, if ever she does, she will find herself not the single beloved of her maker, but merely a little bubble adrift on the boundless and bottomless ocean of being. Olaf Stapledon
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. Terry Brooks
At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos. Henry Adams
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. Charlotte Brontë