Weightless means having no apparent weight at all. Feel weightless, weightless in orbit, a weightless fabric.
In orbit nothing is actually without weight, since gravity is still nearly as strong there: everything is falling together, which is why it feels weightless. The word is also used of fabrics and of feelings.
1adjectiveweightlessHaving no apparent weight at all.
“In the swimming pool, my heavy body felt almost weightless.”
weightless is a state.
Proto-Indo-European
*weǵʰ-
Proto-Germanic
*wihtiz
Old English
wiht
Middle English
weight
English
weight
English, today
weightless
Built from
From weight + -less. weight comes from Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic wihtiz "weight"; compare weganą (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European weǵʰ- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”). Equivalent to weigh + t. Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), stq Wächte (“scale”), Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”), German Wucht (“massiveness, force”), Gewicht (“weight”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA