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weightless Definition

weight·less (wātlis)

adjective

having little or no apparent weight; specif.,

  1. falling freely through a gravitational field, without apparent gravitational effects, as everything does inside an orbital spacecraft
  2. of or having zero gravity
  3. existing in a state of equilibrium within a fluid

weightless Related Forms
weight·lessly adverb weight·less·ness noun
weightless Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: You'll love the way the foam slowly reacts as you lie down, giving you an almost weightless sensation.
  • virtually: The body becomes buoyant, and in the case of the sloth, virtually weightless.
  • nearly: In their water play, they gain an instinctive understanding of the freedom and flow that being nearly weightless offers.
  • seemingly: Seemingly weightless, the rope and woman merge into a symbiosis of sensuality and passion.
  • so: Wings of the mind, so weightless 1090 No bodily wings could ever be so.

Modifies a noun

  • economy: In the new weightless economy, Nike doesn't make shoes, Gap doesn't make clothes, MacDonalds don't make burgers.
  • environment: Their reward was a session in a weightless environment aboard a parabolic flight which is normally used to train astronauts.
  • comfort: Memory foam gently molds to your body's own individual shape, weight, and temperatures so you get weightless, pressure-free comfort.
  • world: For humans, fish appear as alien creatures living in a weightless twilight world.
  • arm: So what about " pressing the buoy " - " weightless arms " - " hand swapping " and stroke counting.
  • body: And if that wasn't munificent enough, he swung his weightless body over into one of the graveyard's grim looking monumental figures.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: The light form the lamp in your eyes, you make it feel weightless.
  • float: I was sailing single handed through the Outer Isles, then floating weightless somewhere between Andromeda and Alpha Centuri.
  • become: Untitled - Yukako Shibata When objects sit on a mirror they appear to be almost floating - the three spheres become weightless.
  • appear: For the first time ever I understand what's meant by dancers on pointe appearing weightless.
  • seem: He and Lunkina look very good together in Act 2, and his lifts do make her seem quite weightless.