adjective
- uprooted from one’s natural environment or cultural background; displaced from familiar surroundings
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The refugees felt deracinated after fleeing their homeland.
- Years of living abroad left him feeling deracinated from his native culture.
- The novel explores the experiences of deracinated immigrants in urban America.
- She described herself as deracinated, belonging neither here nor there.
- The deracinated artist struggled to find inspiration in the unfamiliar city.
- Economic migration has created a generation of deracinated workers.