drifting
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
aimless wandering from place to place
Types & categories
- wandering hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
a drifting double-dealer
Related & opposite
- purposelessness derivation
- vagabond derivation
- vagrant derivation
- vagrancy derivation
- unsettled similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stray |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stray |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wandering |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | purposelessness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vagabond |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vagrant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vagrancy |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsettled |