Definition of "unmoored" []

• Not moored. (adjective)

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• "The word unmoored comes to mind, right before I start thinking of all the pop songs about everything and everyone being all right."
• "The final showdown, like many other dramatic moments in the novel, recalls similar scenes in countless adventure novels; and Parris's dialogue - courtly one moment and modern the next - often seems unmoored from the novel's era ..."
• "Media figures seemingly unmoored from the moderating influence of superego, revealing cheerily oblivious chauvinism (Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann) and impressively mettlesome candor about gender bias (Couric, Campbell Brown)."