gripless
Lacking any purchase
Gripless means lacking grip or the ability to hold firmly.
A gripless handle offers no traction.
Gripless tires slide on wet pavement.
Figuratively, someone gripless has lost control or can't get a handle on things: After the third setback, he felt completely gripless.
Without roughness or difficulty
- slickSmooth or craftily adept
- slipperyLacking friction, hard-to-grasp
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
- frictionlessHaving no resistance
ungrippable · sleek · glossy · waxed · oily · greasy · lubricated · glassy
Weak and ineffective
- powerlessLacking strength or authority
- frailWeak and breakable
- limpLacking firmness or rigidity
- flaccidSoft, lacking firmness
slack · loose · enfeebled · debilitated · enervated · unsteady · wobbly · shaky
Incapable of producing results
- uselessWithout practical value
- impotentLacking power or efficacy
- helplessUnable to act independently
- incapableLacking requisite ability
uncontrolling · powerless · inadequate · unsuccessful · unmanageable · floundering · fumbling · grasping
Not firmly known
- unmooredReleased from anchorage
- adriftFloating without control
- unstableProne to sudden change
- unanchoredNot fastened down
groundless · rootless · precarious · tenuous · shaky · unsupported · untethered · floating
smooth
Without roughness or difficulty
- slickSmooth or craftily adept
- slipperyLacking friction, hard-to-grasp
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
frictionless · ungrippable · sleek · glossy · waxed · oily · greasy · lubricated · glassy · silky
feeble
Weak and ineffective
flaccid · slack · loose · enfeebled · debilitated · enervated · unsteady · wobbly · shaky · trembling
futile
Incapable of producing results
incapable · uncontrolling · powerless · inadequate · unsuccessful · unmanageable · floundering · fumbling · grasping · clutching
uncertain
Not firmly known
unanchored · groundless · rootless · precarious · tenuous · shaky · unsupported · untethered · floating · drifting