loveless

[ luhv-lis ]

/ ˈlʌv lɪs /

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adjective

without any love: a loveless marriage.

feeling no love.

receiving no love; unloved.

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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, adverblove·less·ness, noun

Words nearby loveless

love-in-idleness, Lovejoy, love knot, Lovelace, Loveland, loveless, love letter, love-lies-bleeding, love life, Lovell, lovelock

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How to use loveless in a sentence

You write that “there was probably never a more dangerous candidate than Diana to unwittingly enter a loveless marriage.”
Tina Brown Breaks Down the Biggest Royal Family Revelations From Her New Book|Charlie Campbell / London|April 25, 2022|Time
It’s clear that, in the midst of a loveless marriage, a tanking career that’s tied to that marriage, and his impending imprisonment, eating luxurious, delicious food is one of the few ways that Tom Wambsgans still experiences joy.
In ‘Succession,’ Food Exists Only to Create More Misery|Amy McCarthy|November 22, 2021|Eater
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.
Brad Pitt and More Oscar Nominees’ Most Embarrassing Roles (Video)|Marlow Stern|February 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
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
After the cold, formal, loveless life at her aunt's, she appreciated her own humble home more than ever before.
The value of a praying mother|Isabel C. Byrum
Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger
They say such thoughts are sinful, but annihilation is preferable to an aimless, loveless existence.
Alone|Marion Harland
There he lived a loveless and solitary life, in a house whose only partitions were chalk lines across the floor.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies|H. A. (Hlne Adeline) Guerber
But of this be sure, that no selfish, loveless egoist could have had and retained such friends.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII|John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for loveless

loveless

/ (ˈlʌvlɪs) /

adjective

without lovea loveless marriage

receiving or giving no love

Derived forms of loveless

lovelessly, adverblovelessness, noun

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