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rootless

[ UK /ɹˈuːtləs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹutɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
    a rootless wanderer
    led a vagabond life

How To Use rootless In A Sentence

  • When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless ".
  • They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families, and substance misusers.
  • We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation.
  • These were the truly homeless, I'd realized that: still members of that rootless, shadowy underclass, for all the roof over their heads. NIGHT SISTERS
  • As narrator we have not a rootless and unchurched young woman but an elderly Congregationalist minister who has lived all his life in the same parsonage in the town of Gilead, Iowa.
  • The menu was inventive but grounded, a balance that saves many top-end French restaurants from the all-over-the-map rootlessness so often found in New World kitchens. A Foie Gras Tour de France
  • The individual freedom without rational limitation appears uncontrollable and rootless.
  • Characters are rootless, without orientation, almost unaware that their behaviour is morally dubious.
  • Each time she came up against his rootless ways, she was dismayed. WHERE THE HEART IS
  • GrowthWhen we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless".
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