rootless

Modifying Another Word

• very: Many homeless children have a very rootless existence, which makes adjusting to a new school difficult at the best of times.

Modifies a noun

• existence: Many homeless children have a very rootless existence, which makes adjusting to a new school difficult at the best of times.
• root: This infinite and Eternal Cause...is the rootless root of all that was, is, or ever shall be.
• people: It also has the effect of breaking away people from their roots and values, rootless people are easier to manipulate.
• person: There during the nineteenth century education provision reflected a formal policy based on the model of:- an ancestrally rootless person.
• man: The house where Orlando lived as a child At the age of 19 he was a rootless young man and started to wander around.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: When he is unknown, not achieving or acting, he will feel rootless, insecure, anxious, and be unhappy.