Synonyms for rootless
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : root-lis, roo t- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrut lɪs, ˈrʊt- |
Top 10 synonyms for rootless Other synonyms for the word rootless
- aimless
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- betwixt and between
- borderline
- defenseless
- destitute
- down-and-out
- drifting
- errant
- exposed
- faltering
- fancy-free
- fluctuant
- fly-by-night
- footloose
- hazardous
- idle
- iffy
- in a quandary
- indeterminate
- infirm
- insubstantial
- irresolute
- itinerant
- itinerate
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- journeying
- lacking
- loose
- mendicant
- migratory
- moving
- nomadic
- not set
- open
- open to attack
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- perilous
- peripatetic
- precarious
- problematic
- prodigal
- quaking
- quivery
- rambling
- rattletrap
- rickety
- roaming
- rocky
- rootless
- roving
- sauntering
- shaking
- shaky
- shifting
- shiftless
- skeptical
- straggling
- stray
- strolling
- suspicious
- tottering
- tottery
- touch and go
- transient
- travelling
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- unassured
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconfident
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undependable
- unfirm
- unguarded
- unprotected
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unshielded
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- up for grabs
- vacillating
- vulnerable
- wandering
- wavering
- wayfaring
- wayward
- weak
- wimpy
- wobbly
- yielding
Définition of rootless
Origin :- late 14c., from root (n.) + -less. Related: Rootlessly; rootlessness.
- As in insecure : adj dangerous, precarious
- As in shaky : adj trembling
- As in unsure : adj doubtful, insecure
- As in vagabond : adj unsettled; vagrant
- As in tottering : adj insecure
- As in tottery : adj insecure
- Without that rootless, worthless, devilish fancy, I might have been no worse than other people!
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- Surface-work not being in vogue, nor rootless blossoms regarded.
- Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney
- In "Ceugant" there is only the Unknowable, the rootless Root.
- Extract from : « Reincarnation » by Th. Pascal
- In all cases the first upper incisors are large and rootless.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 2 » by Various
- Such teeth are said to be rootless or to have persistent pulps.
- Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds
- All the teeth of the animal are rootless, and there are no canines.
- Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
- His patriotism was a rootless organism floating in a calm sea of sentiment.
- Extract from : « Command » by William McFee
- In this sub-family the molars are generally semi-rooted or rootless.
- Extract from : « Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon » by Robert A. Sterndale
- But for it she would have felt as rootless as the whiffs of thistledown the wind blew past her.
- Extract from : « Summer » by Edith Wharton
- And any religion that most men have is of this outside, shallow, rootless description.
- Extract from : « Bunyan Characters » by Alexander Whyte
Antonyms for rootless
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