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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
But she never stayed in one place for too long, drifting between Westlake and Hollywood.
Against France they got undone a bit by the way they were drifting in defence - and Scotland had done their homework.
The movie is built on the drifting life of a smart, stunningly beautiful and unfulfilled woman.
Ahead of the recent rainfall, Carrillo returned to the house to put sandbags around the perimeter of his property to keep ash from drifting onto the property.
And yet in this liminal space dedicated to emotional drifting, I truly felt like I was nowhere at all.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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