If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do:
Adrift
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Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy ofwind and waves. Also fig.So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden.Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
Adrift meaning & definition 1 of Adrift.
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To separate from something, somewhere. Adrift as in to drift away from.
Adrift meaning & definition 2 of Adrift.
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