Used in a Sentence

deracinated

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for deracinated.

Editorial note

In a time when it is culturally deracinated and absent from so many men's childhoods.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of deracinated gathered in one view.

adjective

Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.

adjective

Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deracinated.

adjective

Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.

adjective

Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.

Example sentences

1

In a time when it is culturally deracinated and absent from so many men's childhoods.

2

Surprise: It's really hard (and often dull as dishwater) to write the kind of utterly deracinated just-the-facts prose you wish the media would produce.

3

I moved to Germany figuring that I didn’t have much to lose, being deracinated and all.

4

I would say I am very low on race, you could say even deracinated and anti national overall in my worldview.

5

I'm as deracinated Westerner as it comes, and yet I'm fairly traditional in this regard.

6

Swimming is very uncommon as a sport or a skill unless you are from a wealthy Urban family in which case you are deracinated and westernized.

7

But examples on their own seem a bit deracinated.

8

The time honored traditions of deracinated Indian-Americans still strong.

9

It's actually a completely deracinated coach spring!

10

Looks like another thoroughly deracinated Indian.

11

> I'm as deracinated Westerner as it comes, and yet I'm fairly traditional in this regard.

12

Instead of buddies from the same towns all huddled together in cold muddy holes, we have deracinated units spread far and wide in laying in fear of thermal imaging.

Quote examples

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The people who get upset about people wearing things from "their" culture are always deracinated diaspora with no real connection to the culture.

2

"Buddhism was too foreign a fantasy of escape for a deracinated westerner." This is where Cioran missed his 'escape latch' from the egocentric fear of death's grasp.

3

We do have that expression in this language, and "papist" is one of the old anti-Catholic (anti-Irish, anti-Italian, anti-Latin) slurs that actually survives, however deracinated, to the present.

4

"Cultural Marxism" is an ahistorical term and suggesting deracinated American nerds whining about "sexism in tech" are in any way successors to the likes of Stalin is absurd.

Proper noun examples

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Deracinated nerd here, but I find your perspective at least a lot more understandable than the people who at appalled by the idea of using rich people's money to save poor people's lives, from a robustly anti-capitalist standpoint.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use deracinated in a sentence?

In a time when it is culturally deracinated and absent from so many men's childhoods.

What does deracinated mean?

Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.

What part of speech is deracinated?

deracinated is commonly used as adjective.