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drifting
adjective as in afloat
Strongest match
adjective as in aimless
Weak matches
- accidental
- any which way
- bits and pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- directionless
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- goalless
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- irresolute
- objectless
- purposeless
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
adjective as in errant
adjective as in flying
adjective as in migrant/migratory
adjective as in migrational
adjective as in nomadic
adjective as in purposeless
Weak matches
adjective as in transmigratory
adjective as in vagabond
Strong matches
adjective as in wandering
adjective as in wayfaring
adverb as in adrift
Strongest match
Weak matches
noun as in boating
noun as in digression
noun as in irrelevancy
Example Sentences
Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.
In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.
Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”
The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore.
Something came up between me and Lyn—and I drifted, and kept drifting.
To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.
As there was not now a breath of wind, we were entirely at the mercy of the stream, and began drifting back.
A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.
We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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