Describing Weight and Steadiness: English Vocabulary List

having little weight or mass, making it easy to carry or move

"This jacket is lightweight."

"The lightweight jacket is perfect for spring because it keeps you warm without making you sweat at all."

having or seeming to have no or little weight, caused by the absence of gravity

"The object is weightless in water."

"The astronauts felt weightless as soon as their spacecraft left the Earth's atmosphere and entered the dark space."

easily damaged or broken

"The glass is fragile."

"The fragile glass vase broke into a thousand pieces when it accidentally fell off the table onto the floor."

not stable, shaky, or likely to move or fall

"The ladder is unsteady."

"The unsteady ladder made him feel nervous as he climbed up to paint the ceiling of the living room."