Drifting

Quick meaning: Drifting is an adjective meaning Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

Meaning

Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

More Meanings

1. Without direction, focus, or goal.
2. The act by which something drifts.
3. That which drifts.
4. present participle and gerund of drift
5. (motor racing) A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.

Example Sentences

The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.

[W]ith hollow eyes / Many all day in dazzling river stood, / To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.

Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.

[Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.

Word Forms

• driftings

Synonyms for drifting

Depending on context, synonyms include vagrant, vagabond, unsettled, adrift, aimless, floating.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adrift, afloat, floating, vagabond, vagrant, unsettled.

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