ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Drifty

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Drifty is an adjective meaning Tending or seeming to drift.

Meaning

Tending or seeming to drift.

More Meanings

  1. (dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.

Example Sentences

The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include driftful, drippy, draggy, wavery, flowing, vagarious.

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