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drifting
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun drifting has 1 sense
- drifting(n = noun.act) Array - aimless wandering from place to place; Array is a kind of roving, vagabondage, wandering
Derived forms verb drift3, verb drift2
Adjective drifting has 1 sense
- drifting(s = adj.all) aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
THESAURUS
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
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