Synonyms for drifting
drift·ing

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1. driftingadjective

   aimless wandering from place to place

   Antonyms:
   settled

2. aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrantadjective

   continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

   "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

   Synonyms:
   rootless, rudderless, vagrant, planless, undirected, directionless, aimless, floating, vagabond, adrift(p), floating(a), afloat(p)

   Antonyms:
   settled

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1. wafting

   Submitted by rinat on August 7, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "drifting":

   drift, floating

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1. David Cameron:

   (The government) has become too focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without being able to say where that should fall other than simply on those who I think can less afford to have that fall on them, i think it is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it, and that I think is unfair.

2. Jim Mattis:

   We never asked for this fight but we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, we Americans are not made of cotton candy. We’re not seaweed drifting in the current. We are not intimidated by our enemies.

3. Chuck Schaffer:

   That's creating a lot of blowing and drifting snow and creating very hazardous travel conditions.

4. Bill Ayub:

   It would be speculation to say at this point, there are a lot of currents on the lake that get up here, particularly in the afternoon. We believe it was mid-afternoon when Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP disappeared. The idea of perhaps being that the boat started drifting, it was unanchored, and that Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP mustered enough energy to get Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP son back onto the boat, but not enough to save Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP.

5. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Vision sees the stars; mission carves the path to reach them. Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations.