Crossword clues for rootless
rootless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rootless \Root"less\, a. Destitute of roots.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from root (n.) + -less. Related: Rootlessly; rootlessness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a plant or another thing, having no roots. 2 Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.
WordNet
adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: vagabond]
Wikipedia
Rootless may refer to:
- "Rootless", a song by Welsh singer Marina and the Diamonds.
- System Integrity Protection, a security feature of OS X El Capitan, sometimes referred to as rootless.
- Rootless, a mode of operation of an X Window System server.
Rootless, stylized as rootless, was a Japanese band. They were affiliated with Being Inc..
Usage examples of "rootless".
From this rootless, dissatisfied ancestry has come the Bisy Backson, who, like his forefathers, has never really felt at home, at peace, with this Friendly Land.
She was a stateless person, legally an American but actually a member of the rootless Third Culture of the multi-national corporations.
The message of Hollywood is the total significance of the isolated individual, stateless and rootless, outside of society and family, whose life is simply the pursuit of money and erotic pleasure.
His ghost would roam the night, unhomed, rootless, unable to find its way to the Summer Country across the Star Bridge.
People had constantly mentioned their surprise that the rootless Niklaren Goldeye had spent four whole years in one place, after only staying a year in others.
The feeling of numb, nameless terror, rootless desolation, the intolerable sick anguish of homelessness, insecurity, and homesickness, against which he had fought since coming to Paris, and which he had been ashamed and afraid to admit, was now instantly banished.
Now since he is a native Egyptian, and not just another Hyksos who has come out of history from nowhere and will inevitably go back there again, these rootless shepherds turned adventurers naturally respect the tavern owner.
She knew he'd been a child prodigy, knew he'd dropped out of Juilliard on his 18th birthday to make his living on the street and at Renfaires, a rootless rebel, as shy as a wild hawk.
According to the Encyclopædia, the Third was often known as the Junkyard Dogs or, simply, the Mongrels, because it tended to draw its members from the White Diaspora: Uitlanders, Ulster Loyalists, whites from Hong Kong, and rootless sorts from all of the Anglo-American parts of the world.
Many decided to stay on the Coast, and while their new radios played hillbilly music they went out and bought big motorcycles -- not knowing exactly why, but in the booming, rootless atmosphere of those times, it seemed like the thing to do.
He has coaxed a few out of their hiding places when, late at night before Nocturns, he can't sleep and wanders like a shade from one place to another within the compound, rootless and lost.
She was a stateless person, legally an American but actually a member of the rootless Third Culture of the multi-national corporations.