drifting [drift]
Main Entry:
drift [drift]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move aimlessly
Synonyms: accumulate, aim, amass, amble, be carried along, coast, dance, draw near, flicker, flit, flitter, float, flow, flutter, gad, gallivant*, gather, go with the tide, go-that-a-way, gravitate, hover, kick around, linger, malinger, meander, mosey, muck, ride, sail, saunter, scud, skim, slide, stray, stroll, tend, waft, wander, wash*
Antonyms: decide, direct, guide, set
Main Entry: aimless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having no goal
Synonyms: accidental, any which way, bits-and-pieces, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, directionless, drifting, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fits and starts, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, goalless, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, objectless, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, undirected, unguided, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward
Antonyms: determined, directed, goal-oriented, motivated, pointed, purposeful, resolute
Main Entry: amble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: walk casually
Synonyms: ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter, meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle, wander
Antonyms: run
Main Entry: boating
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: travel, recreation in water
Synonyms: canoeing, cruising, drifting, paddling, rowing, sailing, sculling, trawling, yachting
Main Entry: coast
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: glide along without much effort
Synonyms: cruise, drift, float, freewheel, get by, ride on current, sail, skate, slide, smooth along, taxi
Notes: the difference between a coast and the shore is the coast is the seaward limit of the land and the shore is the landward limit of the sea
shore is the general word for an edge of land directly bordering a body of water; coast is limited to land along a sea or ocean
Main Entry: cruise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sail
Synonyms: boat, coast, drift, fare, gad, gallivant, go, hie, jaunt, journey, keep steady pace, meander, navigate, pass, proceed, push on, repair, travel, voyage, wander about, wend
Main Entry: deviate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stray from normal path
Synonyms: aberrate, angle off, avert, bear off, bend, bend the rules, break pattern, circumlocate, contrast, deflect, depart, depart from, differ, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, edge off, err, get around, go amiss, go haywire, go off on tangent, go out of control, go out of way, leave beaten path, not conform, part, shy, swerve, swim against stream, take a turn, turn, turn aside, vary, veer, wander
Antonyms: go straight, keep, stay
Main Entry: digress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stray, deviate
Synonyms: aberrate, be diffuse, beat about the bush, circumlocute, depart, divagate, drift, excurse, get off the point, get off the subject, get sidetracked, go by way of, go off on a tangent, long way, meander, ramble, roam, swerve, turn aside, veer, wander, wander away
Antonyms: be direct, stay
Main Entry: digression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deviation; straying
Synonyms: apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, note, obiter dictum, parenthesis, rambling, variation, wandering
Antonyms: directness, straightness
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