earthless

See also: Earthless

English

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

earthless (not comparable)

Without earth or soil.
- 1825, Ralph Griffiths, G E Griffiths, The Monthly Review:
  "It is," he says, "an earthless country, bordered by immense ice-islands, which are continually separating in the summer...
- 1825, W T Sherwin, Richard Carlile, The Republican:
  ...the Christians, having possession of that worthless, rocky, barren, earthless spot of land, called in Europe the Holy Land...
- 1897, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Bulletin:
  In the Yangtze gorges the wild form grows on cliffs in practically earthless ledges...
(obsolete) Unearthly; not of the Earth.
- 1834, Carl Spindler, The Jesuit:
  ...as the superstitious terrors of the sailors pointed towards this earthless visitant...

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