英语词汇“rootless”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rootless

/ˈruːtləs

adjective

1(Of a plant) not having roots: a rootless flowering plant...

Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge.
The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds.

2Having no settled home or social or family ties: a rootless nomad...

Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless.
He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends.
True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering.

Synonyms

itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose;

homeless, without family ties, of no fixed abode, without a settled home, vagabond

Derivatives

rootlessness

/ˈruːtləsnəs

/ noun ...

Persecution, alienation, rootlessness, the seemingly endless capacity of humans for cruelty: these are Phillips's recurring themes, explored through a range of historical and contemporary events.
I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America.
He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains.

单词	rootless
释义	rootless /ˈruːtləs / adjective 1(Of a plant) not having roots: a rootless flowering plant... Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge. The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds. 2Having no settled home or social or family ties: a rootless nomad... Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless. He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends. True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering. Synonyms itinerant, unsettled, drifting, roving, footloose; homeless, without family ties, of no fixed abode, without a settled home, vagabond Derivatives rootlessness /ˈruːtləsnəs / noun ... Persecution, alienation, rootlessness, the seemingly endless capacity of humans for cruelty: these are Phillips's recurring themes, explored through a range of historical and contemporary events. I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America. He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains.
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