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rootless

[ root-lis, root- ]

adjective

  1. having no roots.
  2. having no basis of stability; unsteady:

    a rootless feeling resulting from economic and social change.

  3. having no place or position in society:

    a rootless wanderer.



rootless

/ ˈ°ù³Ü˳ٱôɪ²õ /

adjective

  1. having no roots, esp (of a person) having no ties with a particular place or community
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rootless1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English roteles; root 1, + -less ( def )
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Most famously, there was "The Future," released in 1992 at the moment of liberal democracy’s supposed global triumph, which offered an eerie forecast of a rootless new century, struggling with the loss of existential meaning:

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Cher grew up with a rootless backdrop that included her mother’s ever-shifting array of husbands, all the while traveling, nomad-like, from one place to another with stints in Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New York.

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Breached rootless cones identified in the current study show similar occurrences of polyhydrated sulfates, further suggesting the blistered volcanic blanket may be hiding a vast sheet of glacier ice underneath it.

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Some of those leftovers are linked to the last-minute installation of rootless trees, two volunteers told The Associated Press.

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The consequences place a target on her back that forces her to remain rootless to survive.

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