adjective

• (of a body, especially in an orbiting spacecraft) not apparently acted on by gravity.

  ‘Her body slowly felt weightless and she landed softly on her hands and knees.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘So far little is known of how the female body is affected by weightless conditions.’
  • ‘She felt light, weightless, as if she were lying on a thick layer of foam.’
  • ‘The ship will not go fast enough to get into orbit, but the pilot will be weightless for three minutes.’
  • ‘Learn to feel weightless in the water by balancing your body in the water.’
  • ‘Water's buoyancy makes a swimmer feel weightless and reduces stress on joints in the spine, hips and knees.’
  • ‘Once in space, astronauts must adapt to microgravity, a nearly weightless environment.’
  • ‘She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze.’
  • ‘The final year physics undergraduates plan to study the crystallisation of protein solutions in weightless conditions.’

  Synonyms

  easy to lift, not heavy, weighing very little, lightweight