weightless
- adjective
- /ˈweɪt.ləs/
- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station experience a weightless environment that allows them to float without any effort.
- weightless environment
We're we're weightless, you know, there's no gravity.
- We're we're weightless, you know, there's no gravity.
- It's super smooth and it's almost weightless, but you get like anytime you turn, there's control.
- If you cut the elevator cable, you're very high up, let's say, you will feel completely weightless.
- And I guess just to feel weightless to feel.
- This is the weightless mousse flexible hold.
- So this says to be long wearing, weightless and full coverage.
Examples
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Even with my bulk, I felt weightless, like I could drift off at any second and disappear.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yes, so so that's what an orbit is and that's why you are weightless in space.
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Gentlemen, welcome to our weightless environmental training facility.
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After the first hit, we lost our gravitational field; I found myself weightless and unable to function.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now, just imagine you're weightless.
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The sensation makes me feel weightless and detached from my surroundings.
Fiction book (1996) -
Well, astronauts in the space station also feel weightless, and that's the key.
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You know that moment, that split second between rising and falling, when you're totally weightless, it feels like you're free.
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Her granddaughter's fingers felt strangely weightless, as if her bones were hollow, like a bird's.
Fiction book (1998) -
Weightless in its owner's hand, yet like a dragon's fang, its bite can never be dulled, never broken nor bent.
Synonyms
Something that has no weight, for example a light particle
Antonyms
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word weightless is made of weight and -less, where -less means 'without', like in hopeless or endless. So weightless literally means 'without weight', which makes it easy to imagine an astronaut or a feather floating as if nothing is holding them down.