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You could use it to describe someone as having no home or general sense of belonging to a specific place. For example, "The immigrant had been living in a country far from his hometown, feeling rootless and unsure of where his life was going."
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rootless
adjective
Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
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A rootless man's shirt is the exact same material as his curtains and sofa.
Gathered beneath the sparse shade of the tree, they create a rootless but deeply connected community, all bound by the fact that here, their voices will be heard.
When Burberry launched a perfume in September, it gave customers a chance to inscribe bottles with their own initials, both in shops and online.Consumers still want to hear the story that luxury tells, perhaps more than ever as the world comes to seem more rootless and mass-produced.
Nicolas Berggruen comes remarkably close to Marx's caricature of a rootless capitalist.
A metropolitan is intellectual, arrogant, rootless, possibly foreign, possibly sexually unorthodox, and certainly out of touch.If metropolitans did not exist, the opposition would have to invent them.
In any country rootless young males spell trouble; in Asian societies, where marriage and children are the recognised routes into society, single men are almost like outlaws.
It was the vehicle for a cycle of rootless creation myths.
For the United haters, Manchester United are not so much a football team as a slickly marketed corporation, followed by a band of rootless success-worshippers.In this section Gladstone's ghost Welsh name-calling Hangman dead Politics or paranoia?
The Georgians close to Mr Cater, with their rootless influence on policy, are if anything even more conscious of the president's popular standing.
I suppose this constitutes a continuing tradition of diaspora, what Stalin called "rootless cosmopolitanism".
A Tory recounts how a director of a "very large bank" complained that not only did Britain have a 50% top rate, but after ending Labour-era loopholes—"you actually expect people to pay it".For another thing, many of Britain's richest residents are either foreign nationals or members of a restless, rootless global elite.
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