graspless

graspless

English

Etymology

grasp +‎ -less

Adjective

graspless (comparative more graspless, superlative most graspless)

1. Without a grasp; relaxed.
   • 1794, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines on a Friend

     From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls.

2. Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial.
   • 1819, John Gamble, Views of society and manners in the north of Ireland‎, page 249:

     She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air.

   • 1892, Maurice Francis Egan, Songs and Sonnets: And Other Poems‎, page 139:

     And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.