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weightless
adjective as in light
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- agile
- airy
- atmospheric
- buoyant
- crumbly
- dainty
- delicate
- downy
- easy
- effervescent
- featherweight
- feathery
- filmy
- flimsy
- floatable
- floating
- fluffy
- friable
- frothy
- gossamery
- graceful
- imponderous
- insubstantial
- light as a feather
- light-footed
- lightweight
- lithe
- little
- loose
- meager
- nimble
- petty
- porous
- portable
- sandy
- sheer
- slender
- slight
- small
- spongy
- sprightly
- sylphlike
- thin
- tissuelike
- trifling
- unheavy
- unsubstantial
Example Sentences
She said the pair were undertaking the exercise programmes needed to stay healthy in the weightless environment.
The breathtaking menswear displays in the show “Up, Up, and Away” featured couture-like poetry: seemingly weightless textiles that billowed like parachutes or kites.
Now back in their mortal bodies, zombies would move differently since they were used to walking through walls weightlessly.
Yet each has also done the opposite: Schubert, in his aptly nicknamed “Great” Symphony, with its Beethovenian heft, for example, and Adès in his hypnotic and weightless “Paradiso” section of “Dante.”
She sets up weightless electronic tones and faraway vocal harmonies as she wonders, “Why do I keep returning to something that’s long gone?”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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