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Meanings of rootless in English

Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community.

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Usage of rootless in English
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The other two remain rootless; yet they are linked with the first.
The Time Traders
2
It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless.
The Guardian
3
Nobody should put a lot of money into a home for the rootless.
The new yorker
4
But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily.
Fahrenheit 451
5
Our rootless existence was the only life I had ever known.
God don't like ugly
6
The news came to her lying and fading in emulation with the rootless birches.
Invisible Links
7
Inevitable, he supposed, when these rootless blades appeared to outnumber the locals by far.
Assail
8
It was a backdrop to intrigue and a centre for the rootless and displaced.
BBC
9
And any religion that most men have is of this outside, shallow, rootless description.
Bunyan Characters (1st Series)
10
A rootless man's shirt is the exact same material as his curtains and sofa.
The Guardian
11
His soul will wander, rootless and destitute, for all eternity.
Nocturnal
12
He is, to use a phrase that Judt applied to Edward Said, a rootless cosmopolitan.
The Guardian
13
The enemies of rootless capital now cite such threats as prima facie evidence against Brexit.
The Irish Times
14
Obama's existence, by contrast, was rootless and marked by his struggle for a racial identity.
The Guardian
15
It seemed a strange and rootless way to live.
Siege of heaven
16
He and his wife split up, and he just wandered, rootless, on that wooden leg.
The prince of frogtown
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