roofless
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Without a roof: Describes a building, structure, or space that lacks a covering roof.
- Homeless or without shelter: Describes a person or entity that is deprived of a home, security, or protection, often in a physical or spiritual sense.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The abandoned factory stood roofless, open to the sky.
- After the tornado, many families were left roofless and sought refuge in shelters.
- The novel portrays the roofless souls wandering the city, seeking purpose.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Can describe a state of vulnerability or exposure beyond physical homelessness.
- His confession left him feeling emotionally roofless and exposed.
Variants and Related Words
- Rooflessness (n): The state or condition of being without a roof or shelter.
- The rooflessness of the building accelerated its decay.
Synonyms
- Unroofed: Having no roof (specifically for structures).
- Homeless: Lacking a home or permanent residence.
- Destitute: Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.
Antonyms
- Roofed: Covered with a roof.
- Housed: Provided with shelter or a home.
Adjective
- physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
- made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another- James Stern
- not having a roof
- the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless