Meaning & use
deracinated
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Uprooted from one's natural, cultural, or social environment.
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The novel follows a deracinated family struggling to rebuild their lives in a new country.
Years abroad left him feeling deracinated, no longer fully at home anywhere.
A note on using this word
Derived from the verb 'deracinate' (to pull up by the roots); used almost exclusively in a figurative sense about people or cultures today.
Words with a similar meaning
uprooteddisplaced
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rootedsettled
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