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loveless

[ luhv-lis ]

/ ˈlʌv lɪs /

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adjective

without any love: a loveless marriage.

feeling no love.

receiving no love; unloved.

Origin of loveless

First recorded in 1275–1325, loveless is from the Middle English word loveles. See love, -less

OTHER WORDS FROM loveless

love·less·ly, adverb love·less·ness, noun

Words nearby loveless

loved-up, lovegrass, lovejoy, lovelace, loveland, loveless, lovell, lovelock, lovelorn, lovely, lovemaking

Example sentences from the Web for loveless

Representing “Loveless” is a Grant member whom Vaillant refers to as “Sam Lovelace.”

What Harvard’s Grant Study Reveals about Happiness and Life |Dan Slater |November 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
“Like many of the Loveless men, it was hard for him to let love in,” writes Vaillant.

What Harvard’s Grant Study Reveals about Happiness and Life |Dan Slater |November 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Loveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the Civil War.

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Washington could never have married a poor woman, but neither could he have tolerated a cold and loveless marriage.

Wes Clark on Washington |General Wesley K. Clark |October 14, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

But the marriage was loveless and lonely and McRay found herself meandering the manicured grounds, plotting her escape.

Hollywood's Kept Women |Gina Piccalo |October 10, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Normal, formal, and colourless, she was what was to be expected of a loveless marriage.

The Turtles of Tasman |Jack London
By no stretch of imagination could she picture herself like the infirm and loveless creature before her.

Life and Gabriella |Ellen Glasgow
Loveless marriage was reprobated by Tennyson, and Mr. Hughes goes into ecstacies over the tremendous fact.

Flowers of Freethought |George W. Foote
He meditates upon his loveless life and the burthen of riches.

Certain Personal Matters |H. G. Wells
Not seldom a nun broke her vow and preferred excommunication to a loveless existence.

Women of the Teutonic Nations |Hermann Schoenfeld

British Dictionary definitions for loveless

loveless

/ (ˈlʌvlɪs) /

adjective

without love a loveless marriage

receiving or giving no love

Derived forms of loveless

lovelessly, adverb lovelessness, noun