单词 | adrift |
释义 | adrift adrift /əˈdrɪft/ adjective [after verb] F0 If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem: » He spent three days adrift on his yacht.Thesaurus+: ↑Terms for location and direction used at seaF0 If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do: » Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.Thesaurus+: ↑Useless and futilego/come adrift INFORMALF0 to become loose: » The hem of my skirt's come adrift again.Thesaurus+: ↑Flexible, loose and yieldinggo adrift INFORMALF0 If plans go adrift, they fail or do not produce the correct results: » Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculations.Thesaurus+: ↑Faults and mistakes |
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