uprootedness

verb (used with object)

to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.

to remove violently or tear away from a native place or environment: The industrial revolution uprooted large segments of the rural population.

to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots: The conquerors uprooted many of the native traditions.

to displace, as from a home or country; tear away, as from customs or a way of life: to uproot a people.

verb (used without object)

to become uprooted.

00:10

Uprootedness is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Origin:
1610–20; up- + root²

Related forms

up·root·ed·ness, noun

up·root·er, noun

Synonyms
3. extirpate, banish, eliminate, remove.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source

Link To uprootedness

Collins

World English Dictionary

uproot (ʌpˈruːt)

—vb
1.	to pull up by or as if by the roots
2.	to displace (a person or persons) from native or habitual surroundings
3.	to remove or destroy utterly

up'rootedness

—n

up'rooter

—n

uproot (ʌpˈruːt)

—vb
1.	to pull up by or as if by the roots
2.	to displace (a person or persons) from native or habitual surroundings
3.	to remove or destroy utterly

up'rootedness

—n

up'rooter

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

uproot

1593 (implied in uprooted), in the fig. sense, from up + root. The literal sense is first recorded 1695.

Matching Quote

"Tolstoy's aristocratic nature is, above all, responsible for the fact that his whole art and thought are rooted in the idea of the physical, the organic and the natural. Dostoevsky's spiritualism, his speculative mind, his dynamic, dialectical mode of thinking, can be traced back just as definitely to his bourgeois descent and plebeian uprootedness. The aristocrat owes his position to his mere existence, his birth, his race, whereas the plebeian owes it to his talent, his personal ability and achievements."

-Arnold Hauser

Upgrade to Ad-free Premium Membership!

Related Words

uproot