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, 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. Bill Ayub:

   It would be speculation to say at this point, there are a lot of currents on the lake that get up here, particularly in the afternoon. We believe it was mid-afternoon when Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP disappeared. The idea of perhaps being that the boat started drifting, it was unanchored, and that Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP mustered enough energy to get Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP son back onto the boat, but not enough to save Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP.

2. Napolean Hill:

   Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution.

3. 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.

4. Chuck Schaffer:

   That's creating a lot of blowing and drifting snow and creating very hazardous travel conditions.

5. 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.