graspless
adjEtymology From grasp + -less.
1
Without a grasp; relaxed.
- From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls.1794, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines on a Friend:
2
Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial.
- She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air.1819, John Gamble, Views of society and manners in the north of Ireland, page 249:
- And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.1892, Maurice Francis Egan, Songs and Sonnets: And Other Poems, page 139:
- Derived terms
- grasplessness