Synonyms for Drifting
drift·ing

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1. driftingadjective

   aimless wandering from place to place

   Antonyms:
   settled

2. aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrantadjective

   continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

   "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

   Synonyms:
   rootless, rudderless, vagrant, planless, undirected, directionless, aimless, floating, vagabond, drifting, adrift(p), floating(a), afloat(p)

   Antonyms:
   settled

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1. wafting

   Submitted by rinat on August 7, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "drifting":

   drift, floating

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1. David Cameron:

   (The government) has become too focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without being able to say where that should fall other than simply on those who I think can less afford to have that fall on them, i think it is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it, and that I think is unfair.

2. Jim Mattis:

   We never asked for this fight but we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, we Americans are not made of cotton candy. We’re not seaweed drifting in the current. We are not intimidated by our enemies.

3. H. G. Wells:

   ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

4. E. H. Chapin:

   To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

5. Jeffrey Savage:

   What we're hearing from these people is that they've been stuck out at sea for weeks and months and then the smugglers just deserted them, left them with very little food and water, no fuel for the engines, so they're drifting.