adrift

«adrift» in Mova's school dictionary: Floating loose on water without being tied up or steered — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective and adverb (adrift)

meaning for a pupil

1) Floating loose on water without being tied up or steered. tree →

2) Lost, with no clear course, direction or purpose; not knowing where one is. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a boat or a person is cast adrift by the sea or the wind and must find land; «cast adrift» means set loose or abandoned.

examples

• The boat broke its rope and drifted adrift. tree →
• The land cast him adrift. tree →
• He was adrift far out at sea. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «adrift» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.