unmoored from

Definitions

Released from the moorings that secure a vessel; set adrift.

Lacking a stable foundation, connection, or sense of purpose; feeling disconnected or disoriented.

Examples

The protagonist felt completely unmoored from reality after the sudden loss of his family.

His political ideology seemed unmoored from the actual needs of the working class.

Without a clear sense of purpose, she felt unmoored from the life she had spent years building.

Synonyms

detached from disconnected from adrift from divorced from isolated from severed from unanchored from

Antonyms

anchored to tethered to attached to connected to rooted in grounded in bound to