earthless

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Definition of earthless

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adj

(not-comparable)Without earth or soil.

“"It is," he says, "an earthless country, bordered by immense ice-islands, which are continually separating in the summer...”
“...the Christians, having possession of that worthless, rocky, barren, earthless spot of land, called in Europe the Holy Land...”
“In the Yangtze gorges the wild form grows on cliffs in practically earthless ledges...”

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adj

(not-comparable)Without earth or soil.

“"It is," he says, "an earthless country, bordered by immense ice-islands, which are continually separating in the summer...”
“...the Christians, having possession of that worthless, rocky, barren, earthless spot of land, called in Europe the Holy Land...”
“In the Yangtze gorges the wild form grows on cliffs in practically earthless ledges...”
(not-comparable, obsolete)Unearthly; not of the Earth.

“...as the superstitious terrors of the sailors pointed towards this earthless visitant...”
(not-comparable)Without the planet Earth.

“an Earthless universe”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Middle English ertheles, erþeles, equivalent to earth + -less. Cognate with West Frisian ierdleaze, German erdlos.

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