earthless

Lacking any terrain

Earthless means lacking earth or soil—barren, without ground to stand on.

The word appears in poetry and science fiction to describe places devoid of the familiar terrain we know: an earthless void, earthless asteroids drifting through space.

It can also suggest being cut off from home or rootedness: earthless wanderers among the stars.

void

emptiness

Absence of substance

absence · oblivion · nullity · infinity · chasm · limbo · blankness · hollow · depthless · rootless

barren

soilless

Lacking earth or ground

arid · rocky · dusty · parched · inhospitable · depleted · unfruitful · fallow · bald · bleak

space

orbit

Curved celestial path

satellite · spacewalk · cosmonaut · asteroid · comet · meteorite · lunar · martian · planetary · extraterrestrial

Opposites
soil/ground presence

earthlessearthy

Coarse and unpretentious

grounded · earthen · earthbound · rooted · soiled

groundedness/stability

earthlessgrounded

Stable and realistic

rooted · anchored · earthbound · planted · settled

terrestrial connection

earthlessterrestrial

Relating to land

earthly · earthbound · worldly · planetary · grounded

Family

earth, earthy, unearth, unearthly, earthworm, earthen, earthwork, unearthing, unearthed

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