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driftin'

driftin' is the pronunciation spelling of drifting.

Meaning of drifting

Adjective

drifting (not comparable)

  1. Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
    • The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
  2. Without direction, focus, or goal.
    • [Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.1922, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, chapter VIII, in The Trembling of the Veil, London: Privately printed for subscribers only by T[homas] Werner Laurie, Ltd., →OCLC, book IV (The Tragic Generation)...

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What is driftin' the pronunciation spelling of?
Driftin' is the pronunciation spelling of drifting.

Words near driftin' in the dictionary

  1. driftful
  2. driftfulness
  3. driftier
  4. driftiest
  5. driftily
  6. driftin'
  7. driftiness
  8. drifting
  9. drifting along
  10. drifting apart
  11. drifting off

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