[
UK
/ɹˈuːtləs/
]
[ US /ˈɹutɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹutɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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".