Definition for Rootless:

• wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; " led a vagabond life"; " a rootless wanderer"

Synonyms for Rootless:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • rootless.
  •shaky (adjective)
  • tottery,
  • faltering,
  • tremulous,
  • ashake,
  • nervous,
  • infirm,
  • jellylike,
  • jerry-built,
  • aquake,
  • tremorous,
  • aquiver,
  • in firm,
  • quaking,
  • jittery,
  • shaky,
  • quivery,
  • precarious,
  • shaking,
  • not set,
  • tumbledown,
  • all aquiver,
  • Rattletrap,
  • unfirm,
  • yielding.
  •transient (adjective)
  • momentary,
  • short-term,
  • ephemeral,
  • fickle,
  • changeable,
  • brief,
  • cursory,
  • passing,
  • shifting,
  • fleeting,
  • volatile,
  • transient,
  • temporal,
  • temporary,
  • mutable,
  • Flitting,
  • instantaneous,
  • restless,
  • fading,
  • transitory,
  • mortal,
  • evanescent,
  • flickering,
  • impermanent,
  • short-lived.
  •unsure (adjective)
  • indeterminate,
  • borderline,
  • distrustful,
  • indecisive,
  • skeptical,
  • irresolute,
  • hesitant,
  • problematic,
  • uncertain,
  • unclear,
  • undecided,
  • suspicious,
  • undependable,
  • fly-by-night,
  • iffy,
  • open,
  • mistrustful,
  • dubious,
  • untrustworthy,
  • lacking.
  •vagabond (adjective)
  • nomadic,
  • travelling,
  • errant,
  • idle,
  • destitute,
  • aimless,
  • drifting,
  • roving,
  • straggling,
  • itinerant,
  • Sauntering,
  • wayward,
  • wandering,
  • wayfaring,
  • rambling,
  • Strolling,
  • moving,
  • shiftless,
  • footloose,
  • Roaming,
  • prodigal,
  • fancy-free,
  • journeying,
  • migratory,
  • stray.

• n.

  •
  • fast,
  • new age,
  • austere,
  • monastic,
  • inactive,
  • bohemian,
  • living,
  • gracious,
  • back-to-nature,
  • enclosed.
  •rootless (noun)
  • unsettled.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • peripatetic,
  • rickety,
  • unguarded,
  • unprotected,
  • weak,
  • perambulant,
  • insecure,
  • itinerate,
  • tottering,
  • unassured,
  • unconfident,
  • unconvinced,
  • unshielded,
  • unsure,
  • untrusty,
  • vagabond,
  • wimpy,
  • Fluctuant,
  • perambulatory,
  • up for grabs,
  • betwixt and between,
  • in a quandary,
  • open to attack,
  • down and out,
  • touch and go.
  •n.
  • bag lady,
  • derelict,
  • doss,
  • dosser,
  • down-and-out,
  • fixed,
  • habitation,
  • homeless,
  • hostel,
  • mendicant,
  • rough,
  • sleep,
  • soup kitchen,
  • street,
  • traveller,
  • vagrant,
  • waif,
  • Street People,
  • tramp,
  • hobo,
  • housing benefit,
  • sofa-surfing.

Antonyms for Rootless:

• adj.

  • insecure
    protected, sound, confident, safe, certain, stable, unshaky, firm, strong, sure, guarded, secure, steady.
  • shaky
    definite, Indubious, brave, happy, unwavering.
  • unsure
    determined, undoubted, believing, trustworthy, clear, trusty.
  • vagabond
    permanent, Inhabiting, fixed, settled, unmoving.

Rootless Sentence Examples:

• None of the forms with which we have now to deal belong to the first division, for, as far as the matter has been investigated, the Indian Voles have rootless molars, but the character of the teeth in some differs from the European forms, and therefore Mr. Blanford has proposed a new section, Alticola, for their reception.

• They were neither taken from other gardens and stuck in rootless, as children do, much less were they of the nature of gumflowers, made with hands, wretched and dry and scentless.

Homophones for Rootless:

• rootlike, ritualize, radiology, red delicious, rodlike, red algae, root-like, radiolysis, reedlike, rutilus, ritualise, roridulaceae, rhoeadales, roadless, ratlike, ruddles, ruthless.