Definition of "rootless" [root•less]

• Having no roots. (adjective)
• Not belonging to a particular place or society: rootless refugees in a strange country. (adjective)

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• "It doesn't seem like a mistake that Mike himself is apparently "rootless"--a traveler, wanderer, lone wolf--and it is women of a similar nomadic lifestyle who finally do him in."
• "They are called rootless and non-abiding, serenely stilled and stilled beyond, possessing natural clear light, having nothing to adopt or reject, and so forth."
• "But the geologist said the crack in the sandstone floor was "rootless," meaning it did not lead to a coal seam, and was not venting methane, Stricklin said."