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What is the adjective for rooter?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs root and rootle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

rooted
  1. Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
  2. (figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
  3. (figuratively, usually with "in") Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
  4. (mathematics) Having a root.
  5. (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
  6. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
  7. (computing) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. fixed, unmoving, motionless, fixed to, frozen to, glued to, paralysed to, rigid, riveted to, stock-still, unable to move from, as if turned to stone, as still as a statue, entrenched, inveterate, settled, ingrained, confirmed, established, deep, ineradicable, firm, intrenched, hardcore, radical, embedded, implanted, grounded, deep-rooted, deep-seated, hard-core, bred-in-the-bone, firmly established, deeply felt, inbred, inborn, innate, habitual, dyed-in-the-wool, set, inherent, stubborn, basic, fundamental, inbuilt, indelible, persistent, built-in, infixed … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “Salvator, motionless and rooted to the spot, in silence, full of anxiety, observed this strange scene.”
      “Is it possible that lying beneath your discomfort and actual hatred for this experience is found a tremendous sense of idealism and a deeply rooted love for the church?”
rootless
  1. Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
  2. Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.
  3. (computing) Without (the use of) a root user account.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, drifting, unsettled, homeless, transient, traveling, travelling, footloose, freewheeling, without family ties, of no fixed abode, without a settled home, wandering, migratory, roaming, ambulatory, migrant, wayfaring, peregrine, vagrant, nomad, errant, ambulant, fugitive, galavanting, gallivanting, ranging, perambulatory, rambling, floating, journeying, mobile, on the move, displaced, moving, touring, migrating, gypsy, shifting, restless, meandering, of no fixed address, destitute, perambulant, itinerate, voyaging … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I've been a rootless nomad all my life, Sir. Now, I finally feel like I belong somewhere.”
      “Asymmetrical folds and axial planar quartz veins, isoclinal and rootless folds and boudinage of chert layers are common.”
      “I love big cities and the rootless cosmopolitan culture that comes with them.”
rootlike
  1. Resembling a root or roots (of a plant), or some aspect of them.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Each electrolier is linked to a corner of the lobby skylight by a narrow rootlike strip of ornament.”
      “When dodder seeds germinate in spring, thin, yellowish stems twine around whatever plants they touch, extracting water and nutrients from them through rootlike haustoria.”
rootward
  1. (biology) Toward the root of a plant.
rootable
  1. That can be rooted.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. screwable
rooty
  1. Full of roots.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Then a steep path, rooty and mountain-bike churned, led up to a main forest track of smooth crushed and compacted limestone.”
      “But the trail is a continuous series of undulations, and the tread way itself is very rocky and rooty, with short, steep climbs.”
      “So he decides the rooty sweetness of beetroot nestled in a pile of soupy yet nuttily resistant rice is both good and interesting.”
rooting
  1. present participle of root
  2. Synonyms:
      3. enrooting, embedding, engraining, entrenching, establishing, grounding, imbedding, implanting, ingraining, intrenching, lodging, setting, anchoring, bedding, delving, fixing, mooring, taking, digging, fastening, sticking, striking, burrowing, grubbing, placing, taking root, growing roots, becoming established, becoming settled, cheering, applauding, supporting, clapping, shouting, yelling, rooting for, browsing, rummaging, ferreting, foraging, rootling, searching, hunting, poking, rifling, looking through, poking through, searching through, ferrets about, nosing around … more
rootled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of rootle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rummaged, searched, scoured, combed, foraged, ransacked, rifled, hunted, raked, fossicked, dredged, trolled, delved, dalf, dolven, rooted, explored, examined, fished, grubbed, poked, groped, grope, hunted through, searched through, dug through, sorted through, went through, gone through, been through, turned upside down, fossicked through, turned inside out, turned over, scrabbled around in, ferreted about in, ferreted around in, looked through, rifled through, ferreted in, fished about in, rooted about in, rooted around in, poked around in, scrabbled about in, sifted through, dug in, fished around in, grubbed about in, left no stone unturned … more
rootling
  1. present participle of rootle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rummaging, searching, scouring, combing, foraging, ransacking, rifling, hunting, raking, fossicking, dredging, trolling, delving, rooting, exploring, examining, fishing, grubbing, poking, groping, hunting through, searching through, digging through, sorting through, going through, turning upside down, fossicking through, turning inside out, turning over, scrabbling around in, ferreting about in, ferreting around in, looking through, rifling through, ferreting in, fishing about in, rooting about in, rooting around in, poking around in, scrabbling about in, sifting through, digging in, fishing around in, grubbing about in, leaving no stone unturned, delving in, rootling around in, rousting around in, shaking down, looking high and low … more
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