weightlessly
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6.5
- adverb
- /ˈweɪt.ləs.li/
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sin peso
- Yet, hanging there weightlessly in the silent emptiness of infinity, Dan felt free of all the world, alone with the cosmos, in tune with the ethereal music of the spheres.
- float weightlessly
Examples
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I eventually switched on the sleep field on my side of the bed, but even floating weightlessly, it took me hours to get to sleep.
Fiction book (1991) -
Even the heavy, compacted snow left by a plow at the foot of the driveway crumbled as the shovel touched it, and lifted as weightlessly as dust on the moon.
Fiction book (1999) -
Deep in her guts, she had expected to float along weightlessly.
Fiction book (2001) -
The two of them gazed into the night sky, hovering weightlessly above the suburbs.
Fiction book (1999) -
Their mood had changed; this was exhilaration, to be weightlessly afloat above the bright cloud-marked globe, with continent and ocean wheeling massively below.
Fiction book (1992) -
He gathers up the dead swan again in his arms, floating weightlessly on the water, as he stands, stunned in the pond, holding this huge, beautiful, limp white bird.
Blog text (14) -
He headed up to the bridge, "swimming" in zero gravity by flicking his fingertips against the passageway bulkheads to propel himself weightlessly forward.
Fiction book (2001) -
Weightlessly, the ball sails into the air, lifting higher and higher into the blackness of space, the small white orb diminishing to a pinprick of light until, like a dying star, it is no more.
Fiction book (1993) -
She established Starpower 1 in an orbit close around the tumbling asteroid, and then the four of them floated weightlessly down to the airlock, where Dan and Fuchs had already assembled six emergency tanks of air.
Fiction book (2001) -
The astronaut floated weightlessly inside the space station, enjoying the freedom of zero gravity.
Synonyms
1
8.0
In a very light, delicate way that seems unreal
Antonyms
How Light
Surface Forms
Morphology
weightlessly = weightless (transparent) = weight + less + ly
The adjective 'weightless' is a clear composition of 'weight' + '-less' meaning 'without weight'; forming an adverb with '-ly' is a standard, transparent process.
Etymology
Weightlessly comes from weight ('heaviness') plus -less ('without') and -ly, which makes it an adverb. So it means 'without weight', like floating or moving as if gravity is not holding you down.