graspless

From grasp +‎ -less.

graspless (comparative more graspless, superlative most graspless)

Without a grasp; relaxed.
- 1794, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines on a Friend:
  From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls.
Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial.
- 1819, John Gamble, Views of society and manners in the north of Ireland‎, page 249:
  She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air.
- 1892, Maurice Francis Egan, Songs and Sonnets: And Other Poems‎, page 139:
  And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.

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