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Weightless

adjective

Having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light. "A baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth" , "Jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"

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"Weightless" Quotes from Famous Books

... high; curved and ended in two obelisked pillars from which, like a tremendous curtain, stretched a barrier of that tenebrous gloom which, though weightless as shadow itself, I now knew to be as impenetrable as the veil between life and death. In this murk, unlike all others I had seen, I sensed movement, a quivering, a tremor constant and rhythmic; not to be seen, yet caught by some subtle sense; as though through ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... your order sustains you. Short time would it do so, but for the worthy individuals who belong to it, and who, at the full length of the lever, are able to sustain a weight which would throw the worthless, weightless men ...

— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps

... face fixed irrevocably toward Mars itself, the other always to the cold of space. Great power leads trailed beneath the ships, and to the dark side. Then there were huge water lines for cooling. On this almost weightless world, where the great ships weighing hundreds of thousands of tons on a planet, weighed so little they were frequently moved about by a single man, the laying of five miles of water conduit ...

— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell