What is another word for drift?
Synonyms for drift
drɪftdrift
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
drift
Synonyms:
tendency, direction, motion, tenor, meaning, purport, object, intention, purpose, scope, aim, result, issue, interence, conclusion, end, courseAntonyms:
aimlessness, pointlessness, vagueness, unmeaningness, indefiniteness, confusedness, aberrancy
Princeton's WordNet
drift, impetus, impulsionnoun
a force that moves something along
Synonyms:
trend, impetus, movement, heading, purport, impulsion, gallery, impulsedriftnoun
the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
Synonyms:
gallery, impulsion, heading, impetus, trend, purport, movementdriftnoun
a process of linguistic change over a period of time
Synonyms:
gallery, impulsion, heading, impetus, trend, purport, movementdriftnoun
a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
Synonyms:
gallery, impulsion, heading, impetus, trend, purport, movementdrift, trend, movementnoun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
Synonyms:
impulsion, apparent motion, bm, effort, vogue, front, purport, trend, drive, tendency, gallery, move, movement, campaign, style, apparent movement, motion, cause, social movement, bowel movement, impetus, crusade, motility, course, headingdrift, purportnoun
the pervading meaning or tenor
"caught the general drift of the conversation"
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trend, impetus, movement, heading, purport, spirit, impulsion, gallery, intentdrift, heading, galleryverb
a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
"they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
Synonyms:
trend, picture gallery, head, header, art gallery, bearing, impetus, movement, heading, aim, purport, veranda, impulsion, gallery, verandahfloat, 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, bobble, go down on, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodgestray, err, driftverb
wander from a direct course or at random
"The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
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ramble, rove, range, stray, divagate, err, cast, roam, be adrift, swan, roll, digress, wander, slip, freewheel, blow, tramp, mistake, vagabond, floatroll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabondverb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
Synonyms:
roam, project, hustle, wrap, verify, spue, redact, affirm, draw, cast off, wave, array, assert, wander, cheat on, mold, float, cast, put, twine, slog, turn over, avow, cheat, throw away, frame, place, roll up, seethe, pasture, crop, vomit up, browse, chuck, mould, roll, throw up, contrive, retch, purge, rate, betray, tramp, disgorge, swear, plod, meander, flap, blow, lay out, pad, shed, wheel, shake off, barf, graze, weave, stray, wind, range, vagabond, swan, rank, grade, couch, thread, pluck, freewheel, rove, be adrift, ramble, regurgitate, cuckold, throw off, straddle, throw, cat, vomit, ramble on, revolve, order, hurtle, spew, honk, roll out, regorge, drop, set out, aver, run, jog, hurl, trudge, err, upchuck, footslog, be sick, undulate, digress, sick, divagate, pukedriftverb
vary or move from a fixed point or course
"stock prices are drifting higher"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheelfreewheel, driftverb
live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
"My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
Synonyms:
rove, range, stray, ramble, err, cast, roam, be adrift, swan, roll, wander, freewheel, blow, tramp, vagabond, floatdriftverb
move in an unhurried fashion
"The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheeldriftverb
cause to be carried by a current
"drift the boats downstream"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheeldriftverb
drive slowly and far afield for grazing
"drift the cattle herds westwards"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheeldriftverb
be subject to fluctuation
"The stock market drifted upward"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheeldriftverb
be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
"snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
Synonyms:
be adrift, cast, ramble, stray, tramp, float, roll, roam, range, err, rove, blow, vagabond, wander, swan, freewheel
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
driftnoun
driftnoun
Synonyms:
aim, purpose, intention, intent, proposal, design, scope, tendency, object, markdriftnoun
Synonyms:
(Geol.) diluvium, diluvial formationsdriftnoun
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(Mining.) passage (under ground, between shafts)driftverb
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drive into heapsdriftverb
driftverb
Synonyms:
accumulate in heaps, be driven into heaps
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#173 | order | |
#288 | project | |
#316 | place | |
#317 | end | |
#352 | rate | |
#428 | course | |
#457 | thread | |
#463 | gallery | |
#603 | browse | |
#604 | issue | |
#605 | range | |
#611 | result | |
#672 | run | |
#679 | put | |
#692 | head | |
#737 | drive | |
#792 | style | |
#794 | front | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1142 | move | |
#1150 | object | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1258 | purpose | |
#1518 | grade | |
#1760 | cat | |
#1784 | frame | |
#1871 | motion | |
#1899 | wind | |
#1980 | waste | |
#1992 | effort | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2171 | campaign | |
#2181 | spirit | |
#2219 | rank | |
#2293 | movement | |
#2372 | direction | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2540 | blow | |
#2595 | roll | |
#2751 | aim | |
#2764 | meaning | |
#3043 | wheel | |
#3064 | array | |
#3233 | wave | |
#3270 | scope | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3373 | suck | |
#3759 | header | |
#4037 | conclusion | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4404 | throw | |
#4405 | trend | |
#4675 | verify | |
#5030 | pad | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5452 | wrap | |
#5534 | intent | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5805 | mistake | |
#5917 | heading | |
#5920 | bearing | |
#6230 | cheat | |
#6367 | chuck | |
#6803 | float | |
#6845 | swim | |
#7295 | intention | |
#8076 | bm | |
#8114 | punch | |
#8245 | shed | |
#8988 | mold | |
#9091 | deviation | |
#10368 | swan | |
#10651 | couch | |
#10789 | tendency | |
#11353 | err | |
#11779 | drift | |
#13093 | assert | |
#13184 | derive | |
#13290 | impulse | |
#13628 | swear | |
#14613 | flap | |
#15344 | coaster | |
#15883 | tenor | |
#16780 | vogue | |
#17234 | rove | |
#17542 | wander | |
#17634 | tout | |
#17716 | weave | |
#18003 | pasture | |
#18225 | crusade | |
#18651 | stray | |
#18963 | hustle | |
#19474 | affirm | |
#20940 | mould | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21860 | cuckold | |
#21908 | purge | |
#23194 | drifting | |
#23203 | boast | |
#25040 | tramp | |
#25519 | roam | |
#26264 | jog | |
#26441 | impetus | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30664 | vomit | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#35034 | motility | |
#36328 | revolve | |
#37100 | betray | |
#38443 | puke | |
#38590 | ramble | |
#39205 | aver | |
#39493 | vagabond | |
#40118 | veranda | |
#43626 | digress | |
#43713 | adrift | |
#43915 | twine | |
#45028 | purport | |
#47400 | graze | |
#48483 | verandah | |
#49599 | spew | |
#49901 | hurl | |
#52352 | meander | |
#53287 | honk | |
#53444 | leeway | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#54814 | barf | |
#54834 | straddle | |
#57008 | swash | |
#62791 | slog | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#80961 | squander | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#99967 | plod | |
#101641 | freewheel | |
#103482 | contrive | |
#104177 | botch | |
#108612 | trudge | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#116093 | regurgitate | |
#154506 | disgorge | |
#155372 | hurtle | |
#163284 | seethe | |
#170258 | avow | |
#175654 | retch | |
#204476 | undulate | |
#207516 | redact | |
#219944 | impulsion | |
#220019 | flub | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#234056 | upchuck | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use drift in a sentence?
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.
The sound will bounce back in the other direction, reducing the noise enough so you're more likely to drift off.
The weight of money does seem to want to come back into the stock markets and we're more likely to drift up going into the end of the year than to drift down.
Translations for drift
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- انجرافArabic
- тенденция, навяване, течение, насока, дрейф, дрейфувам, нося сеBulgarian
- vagarejar, vagarCatalan, Valencian
- závějCzech
- irren, driften, ziellos ziehen, abdriften nach, Drift, ziehen nach, sich zu einer Verwehung anhäufen, zu Haufen zusammengeweht werden, Verwehungen bilden, zu einen Haufen zusammenwehen, ziellos wandern, treibenGerman
- drivaĵo, drivi, drivoEsperanto
- derivar, errar, ir a la deriva, derrape, vagarSpanish
- triivEstonian
- kasaantuma, kuljeskella, ajautua, ajautuminen, hortoilla, välys, lauma, harhailla, sortuma, ajelehtia, sorto, kasa, ajopuu, kasautumaFinnish
- dérive, dériver, errer, dévierFrench
- נסחףHebrew
- भावHindi
- torsello, punzoneItalian
- 漂流Japanese
- dreifētLatvian
- makihoi, tūkōripi, whakatairangi, hū, māeroero, paratai, pārārikiMāori
- vandreNorwegian
- trekkenDutch
- zaspa, dryftPolish
- смещаться, дрейфовать, тенденция, течение, дрейф, сместиться, носиться, сноситьсяRussian
- drift, drivaSwedish
- trôi dạtVietnamese
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