drifted

verbmove aimlessly

Synonyms for drifted

verb move aimlessly

Antonyms for drifted

Word Origin & History

c.1300, literally "a being driven" (of snow, etc.); not recorded in Old English; either a suffixed form of drive (v.) (cf. thrift/thrive) or borrowed from Old Norse drift "snow drift," or Middle Dutch drift "pasturage, drove, flock," both from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (cf. Danish and Swedish drift, German Trift), from PIE root *dhreibh- "to drive, push" (see drive (v.)). Sense of "what one is getting at" is from 1520s. Meaning "controlled slide of a sports car" attested by 1955.

Example Sentences for drifted

But now the picture that drifted through his mind was still more horrible.

But it was not to be drifted up with the sand of forgetfulness!

From desiring the farm, insensibly Crane drifted into coveting the mare.

Every one else seemed to have drifted into an adjoining room.

The craft made but two raps on the bar, when she drifted clear.

He drifted slowly on until the town and the bluffs sank in the darkness.

I am such a waif and stray everywhere, that I am liable to be drifted where any current may set.'

When within a few rods of each other we ceased paddling, and drifted by with the momentum.

It was a filthy place and snow had drifted in through the openings in the roof and side.

By instinct, I suppose, I drifted towards my ante bellum quarters.