adrift

adjective

Definition of adriftnext
as in deserted

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Recent Examples of adrift Lexi is adrift in the ruthless world of Hollywood. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026 Emotionally exhausted and adrift, Aubry said goodbye to Survivor and moved on with her life, getting married and having a child. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026 Her odyssey will lead to threesomes and lonely nights, but also difficult questions regarding how her faith and family may leave her perpetually adrift. — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Brownsville, Oregon, population 1,694, is set adrift in time, a place only disturbed when a tractor from the surrounding farmland rolls through. — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 23 June 2026 Four people and a dog were left adrift in a treacherous ocean inlet when their boat capsized off Oak Island on the North Carolina coast, according to searchers. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 19 May 2026 Few of the film’s ideas truly connect with one another, leaving its lead stars adrift in the process, forcing them to conjure three dimensional details from a script that, intentionally or otherwise, feels paper thin. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 18 May 2026 In 2000, seven months after he was found adrift in the Straits of Florida, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba. — ABC News, 15 June 2026 The Pennsylvania native made her TV acting debut on the HBO hit as Faye, the adrift addict who bonds with Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) and later Rue (Zendaya), after previously establishing herself in adult films, with creator Sam Levinson casting her directly. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift
  1. deserted
  2. divided
  3. forsaken
  4. neglected
  5. forgotten
  6. abandoned
  7. disjointed
  8. disconnected
Adjective
  • Once all but deserted, the town experienced a revival in 1965, when artists and musicians began to flock there after encouragement from the Yugoslav government.
    — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • Security video reportedly shows Carman entering a condominium hand in hand with the teen, then later leaving alone, hauling a large suitcase toward a deserted area alongside the railway.
    — Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of deserted
Adjective
  • Americans are deeply divided and intensely polarized, with pessimism at or near a multidecade high.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • In a world increasingly more divided than connected — where politics, algorithms and social media feuds sort us into tribes siloed by grievances — the World Cup still accomplishes something remarkably simple.
    — Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 30 June 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
  • Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of neglected
Adjective
  • Caregivers remembered him not as a forgotten man, but as someone impossible to forget.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026
  • Hand creams are often a forgotten but very important part of any anti-aging routine, especially during the cooler months.
    — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of forgotten
Adjective
  • 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
  • The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.
    — Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of abandoned
Adjective
  • Sophisticated scams The days of thinking of scammers as unsophisticated, disjointed actors are over in 2026, according to Yoon.
    — Ella Moore July 2, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • This holistic approach addresses what's failing in current, disjointed systems and fosters more flourishing futures, including for leaders themselves.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of disjointed
Adjective
  • What should scare them more is ending up with hundreds of AI projects, dozens of disconnected workflows and no idea how any of it fits together.
    — David Van Ronk, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Structured blazers and heavy layering feel increasingly disconnected from today’s climate and lifestyle.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Definition of disconnected

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