ADRIFT Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

adrift

adjective

Definition of adrift

as in deserted

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Recent Examples of adrift When her home burned down in the Eaton fire, artist Susannah Mills felt lost and adrift — but never alone. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Her experience as someone who had studied Chinese but still felt adrift in Taipei mirrored her experience of grief, Kuang explains. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026 Hamilton is now 76 points adrift with 10 races to go, while Ferrari is 87 points behind Mercedes. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 This theory isn’t landing in Washington, where the frantic and ideologically charged discourse portrays the adrift Democrats as led around by their left wing. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Yet instead of getting real answers, many women are left feeling adrift. — Tabitha Britt, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026 On June 8 an explosion flooded her engine room off southern Yemen and left her adrift. — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 That summer, Gossard and his bandmates, including bassist Jeff Ament, were left mourning and adrift. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift

Adjective

There’s even a nod to 28 Days Later, with Zeta-Jones hobbling across a deserted Westminster Bridge in London wearing blue hospital scrubs, just like Cillian Murphy’s Jim in the 2002 horror movie.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
The landscape of the deserted street was becoming all red sand and brown stone.

— Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of deserted

Adjective

And viewers’ mileage will certainly vary with this peculiar, fun little concoction on seclusion, connection and the need to belong that can’t hide its undercurrent of melancholy about the sorry state of a divided world.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2026
The divided reaction was evident last month after an Eels team reunion.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 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 sixth-year safety is wearing the green dot for the first time in his career this season and calling the defense, but even still, how could the Colts look that disjointed and unprepared after so much talk about execution and urgency?

— James Boyd, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
The team put together by new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and coached by Hafley looked young, inexperienced and disjointed.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of disjointed

Adjective

When marketing and sales operate on separate data sets and disconnected systems, the customer journey is broken and experience suffers.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 4 Sep. 2026
Coordinating people, locations and devices while maintaining protocol consistency and data integrity becomes significantly more challenging when workflows rely on disconnected systems or manual handoffs.

— Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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