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rootless

rootless adjective: of a plant or another thing, having no roots.

Adjective

rootless (comparative more rootless, superlative most rootless)

  1. Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
  2. Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.
  3. Without (the use of) a root user account.
    Antonyms:
    rooted

rootless meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

rootless in Tamil

பற்றுக்கோடிலி, வேரிலி

rootless in Malayalam

unsettled, itinerant, drifting
വേരില്ലാത്ത, എങ്ങും ഉറയ്ക്കാത്ത, സദാ ചുറ്റിസ്സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന, അലഞ്ഞുതിരിയുന്ന, സ്ഥിരമായി എങ്ങും താമസിക്കാത്ത, നിർവിഷയ

rootless in Kannada

ಬೇರಿಲ್ಲದ, ಬುಡವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಮೂಲ ಕಾರಣವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಆಧಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ನೆಲೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ತನ್ನದೆಂಬ ನೆಲೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ

Antonyms of rootless

Forms of rootless

comparativemore rootless
superlativemost rootless

Origin of rootless

By surface analysis, root + less.

Words formed from rootless

Phrases with rootless

Questions about rootless

What does rootless mean?
Rootless means of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
What is rootless in Tamil?
Rootless in Tamil is பற்றுக்கோடிலி, வேரிலி. See Rootless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rootless?
Rootless is an adjective.

Words near rootless in the dictionary

  1. rootkitted
  2. rootkitting
  3. rootle
  4. rootled
  5. rootles
  6. rootless
  7. rootless cosmopolitan
  8. rootless cosmopolitans
  9. rootlessly
  10. rootlessness
  11. rootlessnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rootless (page history and authors); rootless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rootless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rootless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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