adrift

[ uh-drift ]

/ əˈdrɪft /

floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored: The survivors were adrift in the rowboat for three days.

lacking aim, direction, or stability.

Origin of adrift

First recorded in 1615–25; a-¹ + drift

Adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days |David Freeman |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Still, “They were my island of misfit toys,” she says, adrift.

Best Career Arc Ever: From Burlesque To Bartending |Anne Berry |September 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is.

Clare Boothe Luce's Vapid Second Act |Wendy Smith |July 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Each experience—like so many others in her life—left her wounded, weary, adrift.

Maya Angelou Knew How To Inspire As A Writer, Teacher, and Great Human Being |Joshua DuBois |May 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard.

Remembering the Fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s Mass ‘Boat People’ Exodus |Katie Baker |April 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
By the time I reached the deck, all was adrift to leeward, and the mast was now held in its place by the weather backstays.

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 |William Clark Russell
They felt safer in their boat, adrift in a tree-bordered lagoon, even if dark, mysterious foliage did overhang them.

Captain Ted |Louis Pendleton
She had thrown her lot with the narrow minds and cast him adrift.

The Tyranny of Weakness |Charles Neville Buck
Meantime the feeling that he was adrift grew upon him and his reserve of capital disappeared.

The Unknown Quantity |Henry van Dyke
The old butler wanted to turn them adrift, and Dumas consented, and repented.

Essays in Little |Andrew Lang

adrift

/ (əˈdrɪft) /

floating without steering or mooring; drifting

without purpose; aimless

informal off course or amiss the project went adrift