All drifting synonyms
drift
D d adjective drifting
- peripatetic — walking or traveling about; itinerant.
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- homeless — without a home: a homeless child.
- itinerant — traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
- migratory — migrating.
- rootless — having no roots.
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
noun drifting
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
- digression — the act of digressing.
- canoeing — Canoeing is the sport of using and racing a canoe.
- transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
- irrelevancy — irrelevance.
- boating — Boating is travelling on a lake or river in a small boat for pleasure.
- yachting — a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
- parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- deflection — The deflection of something means making it change direction.
adverb drifting
- unanchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- unmoored — to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- adrift — If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.