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Meanings of
rootless
in English
Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community.
vagabond
Related terms
unsettled
Usage of
rootless
in English
1
The other two remain
rootless
;
yet they are linked with the first.
2
It portrays LA as a place where criminals are
rootless
,
almost weightless.
3
Nobody should put a lot of money into a home for the
rootless
.
4
But when he was held,
rootless
,
in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily.
5
Our
rootless
existence was the only life I had ever known.
6
The news came to her lying and fading in emulation with the
rootless
birches.
7
Inevitable, he supposed, when these
rootless
blades appeared to outnumber the locals by far.
8
It was a backdrop to intrigue and a centre for the
rootless
and displaced.
9
And any religion that most men have is of this outside, shallow,
rootless
description.
10
A
rootless
man's shirt is the exact same material as his curtains and sofa.
11
His soul will wander,
rootless
and destitute, for all eternity.
12
He is, to use a phrase that Judt applied to Edward Said, a
rootless
cosmopolitan.
13
The enemies of
rootless
capital now cite such threats as prima facie evidence against Brexit.
14
Obama's existence, by contrast, was
rootless
and marked by his struggle for a racial identity.
15
It seemed a strange and
rootless
way to live.
16
He and his wife split up, and he just wandered,
rootless
,
on that wooden leg.
Other examples for "rootless"
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rootless
Adjective
Frequent collocations
feel rootless
as rootless
rootless existence
rootless birches
rootless cosmopolitan
More collocations
Rootless
through the time