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weightlessly

weightlessly adverb: whilst weightless; without weight.

Adverb

weightlessly (comparative more weightlessly, superlative most weightlessly)

  1. whilst weightless; without weight
    • The astronaut hung weightlessly in the capsule.
    • Suddenly I saw him, gliding weightlessly down an escalator, looking remarkably grim: the Beast before he gets to kiss Beauty.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, pages 99–100

Forms of weightlessly

comparativemore weightlessly
superlativemost weightlessly

Origin of weightlessly

From weightless + -ly.

Questions about weightlessly

What does weightlessly mean?
Weightlessly means whilst weightless; without weight.
What part of speech is weightlessly?
Weightlessly is an adverb.

Words near weightlessly in the dictionary

  1. weightings
  2. weightism
  3. weightist
  4. weightists
  5. weightless
  6. weightlessly
  7. weightlessness
  8. weightlessnesses
  9. weightlift
  10. weightlifted
  11. weightlifter

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