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say it: WAYT-luhs
weightless is an adjective meaning "having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light". It is pronounced /ˈweɪtləs/ — WAYT-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
“floating freely in a weightless condition”
“a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth”
“jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weightless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.