loveless

[luhv-lis]

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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

Related formslove·less·ly, adverblove·less·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for loveless

Contemporary Examples

Representing “Loveless” is a Grant member whom Vaillant refers to as “Sam Lovelace.”
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Dan Slater
November 7, 2012
“Like many of the Loveless men, it was hard for him to let love in,” writes Vaillant.
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Dan Slater
November 7, 2012
Loveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the Civil War.
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Marlow Stern
February 22, 2012
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
But the marriage was loveless and lonely and McRay found herself meandering the manicured grounds, plotting her escape.
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Gina Piccalo
October 10, 2010

Historical Examples

Still we have bottled most of it and the labourer accepts his loveless lot.
City of Endless Night
Milo Hastings
Why else would you submit to a loveless life and the dull routine of toil?
City of Endless Night
Milo Hastings
Into what a nest of stings and thorns his loveless marriage had plunged him!
The Strollers
Frederic S. Isham
And so her life had flowed on, uniform, peaceful and respectable, but loveless.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
Guy de Maupassant
That it could lead to more evil than a loveless marriage was not, however, to be feared.
Robert Orange
John Oliver Hobbes

British Dictionary definitions for loveless

loveless

adjective

without lovea loveless marriage
receiving or giving no love

Derived Formslovelessly, adverblovelessness, noun

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Word Origin and History for loveless

adj.

early 14c., "feeling no love;" late 14c. "unloved," from from love (n.) + -less. Attested from mid-13c. as a surname. Related: Lovelessly; lovelessness.

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Examples from the Web for loveless

Contemporary Examples

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.

Historical Examples

Still we have bottled most of it and the labourer accepts his loveless lot.

Why else would you submit to a loveless life and the dull routine of toil?

Into what a nest of stings and thorns his loveless marriage had plunged him!

And so her life had flowed on, uniform, peaceful and respectable, but loveless.

That it could lead to more evil than a loveless marriage was not, however, to be feared.

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Word Origin and History for loveless

adj.

Origin of loveless