Definition of rootless in English:

rootless

adjective ˈruːtləsˈrutləs

1(of a plant) not having roots.
a rootless flowering plant
Example sentencesExamples
- Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge.
- The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds.
2Having no settled home or social or family ties.
a rootless nomad
Example sentencesExamples
- Colonial security and prosperity depended on soldiers, convicts, and slaves, but they were seen as dangerous because most were rootless young males who were alien from European settlers.
- The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage.
- Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties.
- Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless.
- It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen.
- Some were indeed rootless men and women, like Lewis Nixon, John Fallon, Margaret Hamilton, and Martha Wright, never appearing in the census or town histories.
- Such rootless veterans lacked the ‘settlement’ necessary to qualify for poor relief.
- True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering.
- I think people from India feel rootless when they come here.
- In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help.
- He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends.
- We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation - the legacy of immigration, exile, and mobility.
- She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent.
- Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere.
Synonyms
itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose
homeless, without family ties, of no fixed abode, without a settled home, vagabond

Derivatives

rootlessness

nounˈruːtləsnəsˈrutləsnəs

Persecution, alienation, rootlessness, the seemingly endless capacity of humans for cruelty: these are Phillips's recurring themes, explored through a range of historical and contemporary events.
Example sentencesExamples
- But the downside of this self-invention is rootlessness - a condition city life tends to exacerbate.
- Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important.
- I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America.
- He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains.

Definition of rootless in US English:

rootless

adjectiveˈro͞otləsˈrutləs

1(of a plant) not having roots.
a rootless flowering plant
Example sentencesExamples
- Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge.
- The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds.
2Having no settled home or social or family ties.
a rootless nomad
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere.
- Colonial security and prosperity depended on soldiers, convicts, and slaves, but they were seen as dangerous because most were rootless young males who were alien from European settlers.
- It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen.
- She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent.
- Such rootless veterans lacked the ‘settlement’ necessary to qualify for poor relief.
- In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help.
- Some were indeed rootless men and women, like Lewis Nixon, John Fallon, Margaret Hamilton, and Martha Wright, never appearing in the census or town histories.
- Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties.
- We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation - the legacy of immigration, exile, and mobility.
- Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless.
- I think people from India feel rootless when they come here.
- The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage.
- He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends.
- True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering.
Synonyms
itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose

单词	rootless
释义	Definition of rootless in English: rootless adjective ˈruːtləsˈrutləs 1(of a plant) not having roots. a rootless flowering plant Example sentencesExamples Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge. The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds. 2Having no settled home or social or family ties. a rootless nomad Example sentencesExamples Colonial security and prosperity depended on soldiers, convicts, and slaves, but they were seen as dangerous because most were rootless young males who were alien from European settlers. The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage. Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties. Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless. It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen. Some were indeed rootless men and women, like Lewis Nixon, John Fallon, Margaret Hamilton, and Martha Wright, never appearing in the census or town histories. Such rootless veterans lacked the ‘settlement’ necessary to qualify for poor relief. True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering. I think people from India feel rootless when they come here. In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help. He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends. We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation - the legacy of immigration, exile, and mobility. She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent. Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere. Synonyms itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose homeless, without family ties, of no fixed abode, without a settled home, vagabond Derivatives rootlessness nounˈruːtləsnəsˈrutləsnəs Persecution, alienation, rootlessness, the seemingly endless capacity of humans for cruelty: these are Phillips's recurring themes, explored through a range of historical and contemporary events. Example sentencesExamples But the downside of this self-invention is rootlessness - a condition city life tends to exacerbate. Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important. I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America. He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains. Definition of rootless in US English: rootless adjectiveˈro͞otləsˈrutləs 1(of a plant) not having roots. a rootless flowering plant Example sentencesExamples Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge. The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds. 2Having no settled home or social or family ties. a rootless nomad Example sentencesExamples Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere. Colonial security and prosperity depended on soldiers, convicts, and slaves, but they were seen as dangerous because most were rootless young males who were alien from European settlers. It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen. She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent. Such rootless veterans lacked the ‘settlement’ necessary to qualify for poor relief. In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help. Some were indeed rootless men and women, like Lewis Nixon, John Fallon, Margaret Hamilton, and Martha Wright, never appearing in the census or town histories. Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties. We have witnessed the rise of a rootless generation - the legacy of immigration, exile, and mobility. Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless. I think people from India feel rootless when they come here. The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage. He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends. True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering. Synonyms itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose
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