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graspless

graspless adjective: without a grasp; relaxed.

Adjective

graspless (comparative more graspless, superlative most graspless)

  1. Without a grasp; relaxed.
    • From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls.1794, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines on a Friend
  2. Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial.
    • She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air.1819, John Gamble, Views of society and manners in the north of Ireland, page 249
    • And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.1892, Maurice Francis Egan, Songs and Sonnets: And Other Poems, page 139

Forms of graspless

comparativemore graspless
superlativemost graspless

Origin of graspless

From grasp + -less.

Words formed from graspless

Questions about graspless

What does graspless mean?
Graspless means without a grasp; relaxed.
What part of speech is graspless?
Graspless is an adjective.

Words near graspless in the dictionary

  1. grasping for straws
  2. grasping the nettle
  3. graspingly
  4. graspingness
  5. graspings
  6. graspless
  7. grasplessness
  8. grasps
  9. grasps at straws
  10. grasps the nettle
  11. graspt

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