Synonyms for be adrift
be adrift

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1. float, drift, be adrift, blowverb

   be in motion due to some air or water current

   "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

   Synonyms:
   swash, rove, vagabond, botch, ramble, bungle, muck up, range, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, stray, blow, tout, burn out, screw up, suck, gasconade, roll, fumble, flub, fellate, cast, ball up, err, freewheel, bollocks, wander, shoot a line, mess up, shove off, waste, louse up, bollocks up, float, gas, bollix, bluster, vaunt, swan, muff, tramp, blow out, swim, foul up, boast, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodge

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1. Steve Rock:

   The world is a mess, our society seems adrift and issues related to COVID have made things worse.

2. Luiz Carlos Heinze:

   If cabinet members are found guilty they have to go. Three have fallen and more could follow. That's not a problem. Temer will still have our support because Brazil was adrift and he has set the economy on a new course.

3. Henrique Olifiers:

   Worlds Adrift allows you to go into the game and set your own objectives and go about the game however you choose.

4. Floyd McKissick:

   What Biden inherited was a ship that was adrift at sea that he's had to sail on a corrective course to get things back in place, and I think he's done an excellent job in doing so.

5. Jack Reed:

   [Austin]will restore direction to a Pentagon that has been left rudderless and adrift for too long under the previous administration, his character and integrity are unquestioned and he possesses the knowledge and skill to effectively lead the Pentagon.