ADRIFT

[adjective] [after verb], [adverb] - (of a boat) not tied up and therefore moving with the sea and wind, or (figurative) not controlled and without a clear purpose or directionHe spent three days adrift on his yacht.(figurative) Da Silva plays a bright, bookish, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona. [after verb]Someone had cut the boat adrift from its moorings.To cast/turn someone adrift is to send them away without any support or help.He made a very emotive speech all about homeless children cast adrift by society.(informal) To come/go adrift is to become loose.The hem of my skirt's come adrift again.(informal) If plans go adrift they fail or do not produce the correct results.Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculations.