deracinated

Adjective

deracinated (comparative more deracinated, superlative most deracinated)

1. Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
   • Lucha Corpi's novel explores the ambiguities of social dissent in a liberal democracy by putting into motion a murder mystery where all the major characters are Mexican Americans, some more deracinated than others, some more powerful than others, and some darker than others.2003, When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America, page 4
   • The deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.2014, Amos N. Wilder, Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition, page 54
2. Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
   • Yet, resorting to Derrida now, one may wonder whether the acceleration and excess of meaning generated by such as the realm of the "virtual" leaves us any more deracinated than we were before with a comparative lack of meaning – leaves us any less unable “to objectivize [the archive] with no...2013, Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols, The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason, page 45
   • In the related introduction to his essays, he contrasts his own emphasis on tradition with another, more recent—and more deracinated — approach.2013, Charles I. Armstrong, Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History