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单词 rootless
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rootlessadj.

Brit. /ˈruːtləs/, U.S. /ˈrutləs/, /ˈrʊtləs/
Forms: see root n.1 and -less suffix; also late Middle English rootheles (transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: root n.1, -less suffix.
Etymology: < root n.1 + -less suffix. Compare Old Icelandic rótlauss.
1.
a. Esp. of a plant: having no roots; without roots.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [adjective] > having or not having roots
rootlessa1413
rooty?c1475
well-rooted1577
rooted1712
rooting1731
radicant1753
rhizomatous1812
own-root1881
rhizogenetic1884
rhizogenic1884
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [adjective] > without roots
fangless1790
rootless1839
unrooted1849
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 770 How sholde a plaunte or lyues creature Lyue with-oute his kynde noriture For which..a by-word here I seye That roteles [a1425 Corpus Cambr. rootles, c1450 Harl. 2280 rootheles, c1500 Selden rooteles; ?a1450 St. John's Cambr. ertheles] mot grene sone deye.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. iii. sig. O.ii Not like a reede ready to waue with euery wynde, nor like a rootelesse tree.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vi. xxxi. 85 As Aarons rootless Rod, so didst Thou fructifie!
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 240 Like the rootless stubble tost, Before the sweeping blast.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 509/2 Grinders compound or rootless.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 492 Like a rootless stalk on a thin soil.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1023 Others, again, float freely, like the rootless bladderwort.
1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) xviii. 232 These teeth are described as being ‘rootless’, or possessing persistent pulps, and from the fact that they are usually long, this condition is known as hypsodont.
2001 Trop. Fish Hobbyist June 83 (caption) Ceratophyllum demersum, or hornwort, is a rootless plant that can be kept floating or planted in the substrate.
b. figurative or in figurative contexts. Without a firm basis or foundation; having no settled home or social or family ties.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
1611 R. Bolton Disc. State True Happinesse sig. *2 When their rootlesse graces shall be withered and wasted away.
1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 387 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity All terrestriall treasures, and riches, are rootlesse.
1754 E. Young Centaur ii, in Wks. (1757) IV. 139 We are for rootless joys, joys beyond appetite; which is the sole root of sensual delight.
1794 H. Poole Sermon 8 Who can tell but their blood..may very speedily be shed, to fertilize the rootless plant of French Liberty?
1816 S. T. Coleridge Human Life in Poems 316 If rootless thus, thus substanceless thy state.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) xi. 218 Separated from Him, man is an incomplete creature,..rootless, hungry, dry, and withered.
1890 Spectator 28 June A rootless religion is no religion.
1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 93 Those rootless widows who wear buttoned shoes.
1977 R. Barnard Blood Brotherhood viii. 79 Rootless young men, without families.
2005 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 19/1 His milieu was the questing, rootless, twilit world of pubs, rooming-houses and hand-to-mouth living.
2. Music. Of a chord, harmony, etc.: played without the root note. Cf. root n.1 17.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [adjective] > root of chord > without
rootless1867
1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony v. 164 The seemingly rootless harmony of the 3rd and 6th of the supertonic..has been satisfactorily traced to the dominant as its generator.
1875 A. J. Ellis tr. H. L. F. von Helmholtz On Sensations of Tone iii. xvii. 541 The rootless chord of the Ninth on the dominant of C major.
1945 Tempo No. 13. 4/2 He certainly learned something from Stravinsky's later style, and from Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, although he never employed the latter in the Viennese composer's ‘rootless’ manner.
2000 A. Collins Jazz Wks. v. 58 You should eventually learn to play rootless chords with either your right or your left hand.

Derivatives

ˈrootlessly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adverb] > in an established manner > in an unestablished manner
rootlessly1840
1840 B. E. Hill Playing About I. x. 147 He alluded, by mistake, to those button-like Children of the Mist which spring rootlessly from the turf, under the auspices of grazing steeds.
1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 157 Nature-worship is..so refined, so rootlessly high-class.
2000 Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 19/3 Her lips had gone blue and her eyes circled rootlessly in their sockets.
ˈrootlessness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]
unstablenessc1340
varyingc1380
uncertaintyc1384
brotelnessc1386
were1390
instabilityc1422
bricklenessa1425
changeability?a1425
changeableness1447
vertibility1447
mutability?a1475
variableness?a1475
inconstance1509
mutationa1542
fickleness1548
variety1548
unconstancy1563
mobility1567
unstability1572
vicissitude1576
variousness1607
inconstancy1613
slipperinessa1618
alterableness1633
versatilousness1640
bottomlessness1642
lability1651
brittlety1652
versatileness1654
fluctuancy1659
fugitivenessa1661
alterability1661
permutability1662
unfixedness1668
mutablenessa1677
flittingnessa1680
frailness1687
flittiness1692
versability1721
plasticity1727
variability1771
unestablishment1776
fluctuabilitya1786
changefulness1791
unsettledness1799
versatility1802
harlequinism1808
fluidity1824
fitfulness1825
sensitiveness1825
insubstantiality1848
contingency1858
rootlessness1859
shiftingness1866
ficklety1888
variancy1888
impredicability1906
proteanism1909
1859 J. R. Ballantyne Christianity contrasted with Hindū Philos. Appendix F. 227 Some advocate of the easily constructed and useless sham-vernacular..will probably exclaim in indignation at my uncompromising exposure of its rootlessness.
1927 E. Bowen Hotel xiv. 167 I haven't had time for a feeling of rootlessness.
2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 232 Lizzie had just condemned me to another thirty-five years of poverty, rootlessness, despair, no health plan, cold-water motels and bad hamburgers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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