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Antonyms for rootless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : root-lis, roo t-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrut lɪs, ˈrʊt-

Definition 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

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for rootless

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