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

How to use loveless in a sentence

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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British Dictionary definitions for loveless

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