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loveless

[ luhv-lis ]

adjective

  1. without any love:

    a loveless marriage.

  2. feeling no love.
  3. receiving no love; unloved.


loveless

/ ˈlʌvlɪs /

adjective

  1. without love

    a loveless marriage

  2. receiving or giving no love
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlovelessness, noun
  • ˈlovelessly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • loveless·ly adverb
  • loveless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of loveless1

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

You write that “there was probably never a more dangerous candidate than Diana to unwittingly enter a loveless marriage.”

From 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.

From Eater

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

“Like many of the Loveless men, it was hard for him to let love in,” writes Vaillant.

Loveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the Civil War.

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

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

After the cold, formal, loveless life at her aunt's, she appreciated her own humble home more than ever before.

Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.

They say such thoughts are sinful, but annihilation is preferable to an aimless, loveless existence.

There he lived a loveless and solitary life, in a house whose only partitions were chalk lines across the floor.

But of this be sure, that no selfish, loveless egoist could have had and retained such friends.

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