Meaning of DRIFTING
| Pronunciation: | | dr'ifting
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- [n] aimless wandering from place to place
- [adj] continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
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| | Synonyms: | | aimless, floating, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant |
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| | See Also: | | roving, vagabondage, wandering | |
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| | Definition: | | Drifting
Claire and Eli Bishop run an inn on the Connecticut shore. When Nicholas Pierce arrives with his blind daughter, whom he has saved from his absent, neglectful ex-wife who wants her institutionalized, Claire is reminded of her own selfish mother who abandoned her long ago. And she misses her own children, who are away at college. When father and daughter disappear, however, she begins, slowly, to realize that something else entirely was going on, and that her compassion was decidedly misspent. more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, gypsyish, gypsy-like, 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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