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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. aimless wandering from place to place;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
- Example: "a drifting double-dealer"
- Example: "the floating population"
- Example: "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
[syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drift \Drift\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drifting.] 1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. [1913 Webster] We drifted o'er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. [1913 Webster] 3. (mining) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

drifting adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: aimless wandering from place to place
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "drifting": ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, circumforaneous, descending, discursive, divagatory, down-trending, downward, errant, flitting, floating, flowing, fluent, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, going, gypsy-like, gypsyish, gyrational, gyratory, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, mounting, nomad, nomadic, passing, plunging, progressive, rambling, ranging, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, roaming, rotary, rotational, rotatory, roving, running, rushing, shifting, sideward, sinking, soaring, straggling, straying, streaming, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, up-trending, upward, vagabond, vagrant, wandering