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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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In "Ceugant" there is only the Unknowable, the rootless Root.
REINCARNATIONTH. PASCAL
All the storms of fate overwhelmed the Confederacy with many a rootless hope and many a plan and pride.
THE RAID OF THE GUERILLACHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK (AKA MARY NOAILLES MURFREE)
The cheek-teeth are rootless in kangaroo-rats, but they develop roots in the pocket-mice.
There is no end to the quickening power of knowledge; but mere individual, rootless acts of benevolence are soon added up.
THE CLAIMS OF LABOURARTHUR HELPS
In all cases the first upper incisors are large and rootless.
In Tuscany there grows on walls a rootless little pellitory (Parietaria), with tiny pale-pink flowers and small leaves.
PLANT LORE, LEGENDS, AND LYRICSRICHARD FOLKARD
Without that rootless, worthless, devilish fancy, I might have been no worse than other people!
SALTED WITH FIREGEORGE MACDONALD
His patriotism was a rootless organism floating in a calm sea of sentiment.
COMMANDWILLIAM MCFEE
Why all this ceaseless sorrow, this footsore wandering, this rootless life, this eternal curse?
GHETTO COMEDIESISRAEL ZANGWILL
Such teeth are said to be rootless or to have persistent pulps.
THE VERTEBRATE SKELETONSIDNEY H. REYNOLDS
WORDS RELATED TO ROOTLESS
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- infirm
- insecure
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- jittery
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- shaking
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- unfirm
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wobbly
- yielding
- betwixt and between
- borderline
- distrustful
- dubious
- fluctuant
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- in a quandary
- indecisive
- indeterminate
- irresolute
- lacking
- mistrustful
- open
- problematic
- rootless
- shaky
- skeptical
- suspicious
- touch and go
- unassured
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconfident
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undependable
- unreliable
- unstable
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- up for grabs
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wimpy
- wobbly
- aimless
- destitute
- down-and-out
- drifting
- errant
- fancy-free
- fly-by-night
- footloose
- idle
- itinerant
- itinerate
- mendicant
- migratory
- moving
- nomadic
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- peripatetic
- prodigal
- rambling
- roaming
- rootless
- roving
- sauntering
- shifting
- shiftless
- straggling
- stray
- strolling
- transient
- travelling
- unsettled
- wandering
- wayfaring
- wayward
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.