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earthless

earthless adjective: without earth or soil.

Adjective (1)

earthless (not comparable)

  1. Without earth or soil.
    • "It is," he says, "an earthless country, bordered by immense ice-islands, which are continually separating in the summer...1825, Ralph Griffiths, G E Griffiths, The Monthly Review
    • ...the Christians, having possession of that worthless, rocky, barren, earthless spot of land, called in Europe the Holy Land...1825, W T Sherwin, Richard Carlile, The Republican
  2. (obsolete) Unearthly; not of the Earth.
    • ...as the superstitious terrors of the sailors pointed towards this earthless visitant...1834, Carl Spindler, The Jesuit

Adjective (2) capitalized: Earthless

Earthless (not comparable)

  1. Without the planet Earth.
    • an Earthless universe

Origin of earthless

From Middle English ertheles, erþeles, equivalent to earth + -less. Cognate with West Frisian ierdleaze, German erdlos.

From Earth + -less.

Words formed from earthless

Questions about earthless

What does earthless mean?
Earthless means without earth or soil.
What part of speech is earthless?
Earthless is an adjective.

Words near earthless in the dictionary

  1. earthists
  2. Earthite
  3. Earthites
  4. earthkin
  5. earthkins
  6. earthless
  7. earthlessness
  8. earthlet
  9. earthlets
  10. earthlier
  11. earthlies

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