loveless
Americanadjective
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without any love.
a loveless marriage.
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feeling no love.
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receiving no love; unloved.
adjective
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without love
a loveless marriage
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receiving or giving no love
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of loveless
First recorded in 1275–1325, loveless is from the Middle English word loveles. See love, -less
Example Sentences
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What used to be an alliance of kindred souls is viewed by both sides today as a marriage of convenience, loveless and lacking basic trust.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Reading on the other hand remain stuck with unpopular owner Dai Yongge in a loveless marriage with points deductions aplenty last season, and this, and a divorce settlement still not reached.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024
There was still drama, of course, but about his personal life - in one of the most popular episodes, he revealed he had been in a loveless marriage for many years and had a son.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024
That he left Stratford-upon-Avon to begin his theatrical career after the birth of Hamnet and his twin sister, Judith, a few years later has added fuel to speculation that the Shakespeares had a loveless marriage.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
I can only suspect that the lonely man peoples his driving dreams with friends, that the loveless man surrounds himself with lovely loving women, and that children climb through the dreaming of the childless driver.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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