0 A rootless person does not have a home to return to.
1 having no family origins or connections, or having no feeling of belonging to a particular place
Perhaps the restless quest to rediscover age-old communities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity.
Frequent doubling of instruments at the octave reinforces an archaic, timeless and rootless quality.
In fact, many inhabitants experience a sense of displacement and rootless-ness.
As a rootless vagabond, he had no allegiances or obligations.
Rare folds are tight to isoclinal, rootless or with strongly attenuated limbs.
Simpleshear deformation is indicated by these inclusions and by rare rootless asymmetric folds.
The volatile, rootless quality comes to the fore in the lengthy interlude.
A rootless phylogenetic tree was constructed by the neighbour-joining method.
