Betydelse av adrift på svenska

• 0 If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem:

  • He spent three days adrift on his yacht.

  • Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.

  • The hem of my skirt's come adrift again.

  • Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculations.

• 1 (of a boat) not fastened and moving with the sea and wind, or fig. not controlled and living without a clear purpose or direction:

  • fig. Hopeful actors from small towns are often adrift in New York.