English

Adjective

earthless ‎(not comparable)

1. 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...

2. (obsolete) Unearthly; not of the Earth.
   • 1834, Carl Spindler, The Jesuit

     ...as the superstitious terrors of the sailors pointed towards this earthless visitant...

Anagrams

• heartless