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weightless

weightless

17 5.3
Having almost no weight, often because there is no gravity
  • adjective
  • /ˈweɪt.ləs/
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  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Gentlemen, welcome to our weightless environmental training facility.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You know that moment, that split second between rising and falling, when you're totally weightless, it feels like you're free.

  • 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

massless
vsweightless
  • Specialized
2 7.4

Something that has no weight, for example a light particle

can have mass but show no weight due to lack of gravity

Antonyms

220 1.0

Full of a large amount of something and bending under it

2 4.1

Heavy and difficult to lift

How Heavy

heavy
812 1.0
light
1 2.1
weightless
17 5.3

Surface Forms

weightless positive
weightlesser comparative
weightlessest superlative

Morphology

weightless = weight (transparent) = weight + less

Direct and regular derivation: 'weight' + '-less' straightforwardly yields 'without weight', which learners can readily infer.

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.