Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Adrift

Adrift ({not transcribed}) , adverb and adjective

[Prefix a- (for on) + drift.]

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
So on the sea shall be set adrift. — Dryden
Were from their daily labor turned adrift. — Wordsworth