weightless

[ weyt-lis ]

/ ˈweɪt lɪs /

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adjective

being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.

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Origin of weightless

First recorded in 1540–50; weight + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM weightless

weight·less·ly, adverbweight·less·ness, noun

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How to use weightless in a sentence

I wasn’t going that far, but I wasn’t going to send a couple of emails until we were safely weightless.
My satellite would fit in a small suitcase.|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In a sense, they’re weightless because the car is the battery.
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The weightless, oil-free moisture absorbs into the skin fast to lock in hydration without a greasy feel and it should offer some relief to redness.
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Even more astonishing are the pictures of him floating in the NASA aircraft that allows passengers to experience weightlessness.
Stephen Hawking 70th-Birthday Salute|Martin Rees|January 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST

It was a singularly uncomfortable sensation, on top of the discomfort of weightlessness.
Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
His head sagged, and had it not been for the weightlessness he would have fallen forward onto the drone control.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery|Harold Leland Goodwin
There was an instant of weightlessness, and then their weight reversed as the A-G drive strove to slow down the ship.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet|Donald Allen Wollheim
You'd think the passengers would enjoy a little weightlessness occasionally—especially the fat ones—but they don't.
Spacehounds of IPC|Edward Elmer Smith
That's one advantage of weightlessness—you can lie down standing on your head, and go to sleep and like it.
Spacehounds of IPC|Edward Elmer Smith

British Dictionary definitions for weightless

weightless

/ (ˈweɪtləs) /

adjective

(of a body) having no actual weight; a state in which an object has no actual weight (because it is in space and unaffected by gravitational attraction) or no apparent weight (because the gravitational attraction equals the centripetal force and the object is in free fall)

commerce

(of economic activity) based on the supply of information and ideas rather than trade in physical goodsthe weightless economy
(of a company) having very few physical assetsweightless dot.coms

Derived forms of weightless

weightlessness, noun

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