firmless

English

Etymology

From firm +‎ -less.

Adjective

firmless (comparative more firmless, superlative most firmless)

1. Detached from physical substance.
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Verses to Dr. Bolton

     Does passion still the firmless mind control?

2. Infirm; unstable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “firmless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)