roofless

Examples

• All

• Three white houses stood on the shore, one of them roofless.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The center and the south wing of the immense house were roofless and ruinous.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Boys were playing soccer in the roofless main room.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Houses are still roofless, electricity is out, and many are without food, shelter, or adequate water as well.

  Blog text (1)

• An alley between two roofless stone houses loomed ahead of him.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Robin focuses on the nearly roofless shack.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The town was still there, to be sure, though much of it, including the baker's house, roofless, fallen down, half-burned, picked clean.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "He found everything desolate, the walls of the roofless church overgrown with grass and overrun by the encroaching forest.

  Academic text (2018)

• Far in the distance, rising vertically from the shifting surface of the plain, a group of columns stands erect and roofless, stoically maintaining a weight dissolved long ago into memory.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The village was devastated, leaving many residents without shelter in roofless houses.

Synonyms

H

homeless

vsroofless

579 1.4

Not having a home or feeling you have no place to belong

focuses on physical lack of top layer not long-term housing loss

U

unroofed

vsroofless

6.3

A building with no covering on top

is about having no top layer and being exposed

U

unsheltered

vsroofless

5.4

Without a safe place to stay and exposed to the weather

focuses on absence of a top layer rather than general weather protection

C

coverless

vsroofless

4.7

A thing with no cover or lid that lets you see what is inside

is specifically about having no top layer and outdoor exposure

U

uncovered

vsroofless

• NSFW

1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

means no top layer on structures rather than lack of clothing

Antonyms

S

sheltered

1 3.2

Protected from wind, rain, or danger by something that covers it

R

roofed

2.5

A building with a covering on top like tiles or thatch

How Sheltered

enclosed

1 3.5

sheltered

1 3.2

roofed

2.5

roofless

2 4.1

open

∞ 1.0

exposed

1 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology