The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roofless \Roof"less\, a.
Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
Wiktionary
a. Without a roof, open to the sky.
WordNet
adj. not having a roof; "the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless" [ant: roofed]
physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed, homeless]
Usage examples of "roofless".
I knew only that I was in a round, roofless, doorless edifice of some hard, smooth, perfectly transparent, non-refractive and non-reflective material, a hundred yards in diameter, with many corridors, and with a small circular room at the centre.
Ancient Ones have built hoams that, probing the sky, still were roofless, and had in many places had their fa9ades stripped away so that beneath the exterior showed little square cubicles, like rooms?
HERALD OF ETERNITY: It is the day when all the sons of God Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor Is Chaos, and the immovable abyss Frozen by His steadfast word to hyaline .
The entrance to the tower was reachable only by ladder that led to a narrow path around yet another roofless kiva.
To insure success, he had dropped the autogiro to the very level of the roofless walls.
The buildings were boarded up or, even more haunting, left to hang open, roofless and shutterless, as if they were half-completed.
He saw Sulve draw back and slam the door in the faces of two of the guards who cursed and then ran for the dubious shelter of one of the roofless buildings.
We passed several islands on which were strangely shaped circular buildings, apparently roofless, and pierced midway between the ground and their tops with small, heavily barred windows.
He took a last look at the shaded green garden and left, whistling in an off key an untuneful air from a roofless farce comedy.
Some dozen huts, cobless, roofless, stuck up here and there in the middle of a field.
Moreover, there had never been any question about whether or not he would leave the Pachomian convent: his eventual departure was written in every little star that ever burped its hydrogen and farted its helium in the void above the roofless roof of the Rapunzel Suite.
He gestured with a long arm to the roofless buildings, the tower whose every open floor and window embrasure, like the cliff behind it, sported its own pendant garden of fern, spider plant, Wookiee-beard, and sweetberry vine.
Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.
The crofts of the Old Village, the roofless church, the cleits dotting the slopes of Tarsaval high above me - none of it was real.
Lynn and a platoon of Third Brigade troopers offloaded twelve hundred bales of barbed-wire into the roofless tractor sheds.