Definition of soulless in English:

soulless

adjective ˈsəʊllɪsˈsoʊlˌləs

1(especially of a place) lacking character and individuality.
（建筑，房间，其他地方）缺乏个性的
she found the apartment beautiful but soulless
她觉得这套公寓虽然漂亮但缺乏个性。
Example sentencesExamples
- Arjun feels perfectly at home in this clean, soulless environment.
- She hadn't imagined it would be a soulless room with blank walls, filled with nothing but vinyl, CDs and a stereo.
- I have found Brussels to be a soulless place, in which everything is closed in the evening.
- Murrayfield can be a soulless place but when the national team performs as they did yesterday it fairly hums with emotion.
- You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirty-somethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer.
- What's left of the city appears nondescript and soulless, without any apparent centre or focal point.
- Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline.
- Around the core are soulless developments and ugly roads and bridges reminiscent of any Western city.
- It organised immigrant workers in the unorganised car plants and engineering firms and gave them a sense of community in the soulless neighbourhoods in which they lived.
- These out-of-town sites are soulless and can be seen all over the country.
- Well, it was the most soulless place I've ever been.
- Plenty of people who felt trapped inside that world promised themselves that they would never end up in such a soulless setting - and that they would certainly never make their own kids live there.
- The ground is lined on two sides by soulless, multi-lane roads, on another by a building site and on the fourth by five-storey public housing.
- It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence.
- The centre doesn't have much to attract people and it's a fairly soulless place.
- It's the most soulless place I have ever been to - no atmosphere at all.
- Chelsea's training ground at Harlington in west London is a bleak, soulless place.
- I think I know what he is trying to say - that modern England is an increasingly soulless place without distinction from other places.
- There can be no real comparison between the bright new Easterhouse, and the dark, soulless town of old.
- The commission has estimated the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims at £117m a year and say public spaces are becoming dreary, fun-free, soulless places.
Synonyms
characterless, featureless, bland, dull, colourless, dreary, drab, uninspiring, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, unmemorable, grey, anaemic, insipid
ordinary, mundane, commonplace, average, mediocre, run-of-the-mill
1. 1.1 (of an activity) tedious and uninspiring.
  （活动）单调乏味的；没有吸引力的
  soulless, non-productive work
  枯燥乏味、没有前途的工作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work.
  It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death.
  His work here, which is technically competent but soulless and uninspired, is unlikely to elevate him onto anyone's A-list.
  While tzedakah is a Jewish obligation, it is not meant to be fulfilled in a rote or soulless way.
  And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle.
  There was something in living things that went way, way beyond the soulless physical existence of the concrete jungle, and that mysterious force was something that needed to be preserved.
  In some cases, that's no doubt true; there's a lot of soulless work out there.
  Synonyms
  boring, dull, deadly dull, tedious, dreary, routine, humdrum, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting, uninspiring, unexciting, soul-destroying, mind-numbing, lifeless, dry
  monotonous, unvarying, repetitive, repetitious, mechanical
2. 1.2 Lacking or suggesting the lack of human feelings and qualities.
  冷漠无情的
  two soulless black eyes were watching her
  一双冷漠无情的黑眼睛冷冷地看着她。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The higher purpose of art is evidently to correct the spiritual errors of a soulless, competitive, materialist society.
  I watch these things from above, sitting on my lofty treetop, observing this human suffering with my beady, soulless, black eyes.
  Dennis, brother of Roderick, also displays a soulless persona, unable to form emotional attachments with either women or men.
  In the end, we're not quite sure if the soulless quality of the milieu he chronicles is a reflection of the world outside his head or the one inside it.
  I remember his soulless eyes boring into mine in resentment, the detachedness of his touch, his monotonous voice.
  Even a fairly pathetic human being is better than being a soulless android.
  The Archbishop of York has condemned the Internet for ‘moving us towards a soulless society’ that will ‘reduce spiritualism and human intercourse’.
  Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
  The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development.
  Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes.
  Tarkovsky no doubt saw himself pursuing the spiritual in human existence against the soulless, corrupt and morally bankrupt Stalinist leadership.
  Government alone without religion is soulless and lacking any moral framework, they say.

Derivatives

soullessly

adverb

Sadly, the movie shifts gear into thriller denouement mode where everything soullessly clicks into place.
Example sentencesExamples
- Many subsequent adaptations of literature typified the film industry's appetite for soullessly copying previous hits.
- I'll never understand how people can take such pleasure in struggling a wonky trolley around endless impersonal aisles of soullessly stacked goods week after week after week.
- Kids who have been beaten or deprived tend to grow up to be either soullessly obedient to their ‘superiors’, or else violently rebellious.
- It was typical of what one hears when the Philharmonic plays these days: astonishing feats of orchestral legerdemain that seem to serve no expressive purpose whatsoever as one soullessly turned phrase follows another.

soullessness

noun

There's a cynical thread running through this novel that isn't merely limited to the soullessness of its criminals.
Example sentencesExamples
- Stokoe shows great insight into the architecture of envy, and there are times when he makes you feel clearly why fame and wealth feel desperately important to someone who has sunk to a certain level of soullessness.
- Rock purists accuse electronic music of a number of sins, but none so much as the sin of soullessness.
- Anybody who spends time in a city doing anything other than going to work and coming home understands the soullessness of city life.
- Stark, bleak, wintry urban landscapes convey the soullessness of Middle America's existence and family life.

Definition of soulless in US English:

soulless

adjectiveˈsōlˌləsˈsoʊlˌləs

1(of a building, room, or other place) lacking character and individuality.
（建筑，房间，其他地方）缺乏个性的
she found the apartment beautiful but soulless
她觉得这套公寓虽然漂亮但缺乏个性。
Example sentencesExamples
- What's left of the city appears nondescript and soulless, without any apparent centre or focal point.
- Murrayfield can be a soulless place but when the national team performs as they did yesterday it fairly hums with emotion.
- The commission has estimated the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims at £117m a year and say public spaces are becoming dreary, fun-free, soulless places.
- The centre doesn't have much to attract people and it's a fairly soulless place.
- Well, it was the most soulless place I've ever been.
- Around the core are soulless developments and ugly roads and bridges reminiscent of any Western city.
- I think I know what he is trying to say - that modern England is an increasingly soulless place without distinction from other places.
- There can be no real comparison between the bright new Easterhouse, and the dark, soulless town of old.
- Chelsea's training ground at Harlington in west London is a bleak, soulless place.
- Arjun feels perfectly at home in this clean, soulless environment.
- It's the most soulless place I have ever been to - no atmosphere at all.
- Plenty of people who felt trapped inside that world promised themselves that they would never end up in such a soulless setting - and that they would certainly never make their own kids live there.
- It organised immigrant workers in the unorganised car plants and engineering firms and gave them a sense of community in the soulless neighbourhoods in which they lived.
- These out-of-town sites are soulless and can be seen all over the country.
- She hadn't imagined it would be a soulless room with blank walls, filled with nothing but vinyl, CDs and a stereo.
- I have found Brussels to be a soulless place, in which everything is closed in the evening.
- It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence.
- You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirty-somethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer.
- Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline.
- The ground is lined on two sides by soulless, multi-lane roads, on another by a building site and on the fourth by five-storey public housing.
Synonyms
characterless, featureless, bland, dull, colourless, dreary, drab, uninspiring, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, unmemorable, grey, anaemic, insipid
1. 1.1 (of an activity) tedious and uninspiring.
  （活动）单调乏味的；没有吸引力的
  soulless, nonproductive work
  枯燥乏味、没有前途的工作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle.
  There was something in living things that went way, way beyond the soulless physical existence of the concrete jungle, and that mysterious force was something that needed to be preserved.
  He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work.
  While tzedakah is a Jewish obligation, it is not meant to be fulfilled in a rote or soulless way.
  His work here, which is technically competent but soulless and uninspired, is unlikely to elevate him onto anyone's A-list.
  It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death.
  In some cases, that's no doubt true; there's a lot of soulless work out there.
  Synonyms
  boring, dull, deadly dull, tedious, dreary, routine, humdrum, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting, uninspiring, unexciting, soul-destroying, mind-numbing, lifeless, dry
2. 1.2 Lacking or suggesting the lack of human feelings and qualities.
  冷漠无情的
  two soulless black eyes were watching her
  一双冷漠无情的黑眼睛冷冷地看着她。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I watch these things from above, sitting on my lofty treetop, observing this human suffering with my beady, soulless, black eyes.
  Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
  Government alone without religion is soulless and lacking any moral framework, they say.
  Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes.
  I remember his soulless eyes boring into mine in resentment, the detachedness of his touch, his monotonous voice.
  Tarkovsky no doubt saw himself pursuing the spiritual in human existence against the soulless, corrupt and morally bankrupt Stalinist leadership.
  In the end, we're not quite sure if the soulless quality of the milieu he chronicles is a reflection of the world outside his head or the one inside it.
  Even a fairly pathetic human being is better than being a soulless android.
  The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development.
  Dennis, brother of Roderick, also displays a soulless persona, unable to form emotional attachments with either women or men.
  The higher purpose of art is evidently to correct the spiritual errors of a soulless, competitive, materialist society.
  The Archbishop of York has condemned the Internet for ‘moving us towards a soulless society’ that will ‘reduce spiritualism and human intercourse’.

词汇	soulless
释义	Definition of soulless in English: soulless adjective ˈsəʊllɪsˈsoʊlˌləs 1(especially of a place) lacking character and individuality. （建筑，房间，其他地方）缺乏个性的 she found the apartment beautiful but soulless 她觉得这套公寓虽然漂亮但缺乏个性。 Example sentencesExamples Arjun feels perfectly at home in this clean, soulless environment. She hadn't imagined it would be a soulless room with blank walls, filled with nothing but vinyl, CDs and a stereo. I have found Brussels to be a soulless place, in which everything is closed in the evening. Murrayfield can be a soulless place but when the national team performs as they did yesterday it fairly hums with emotion. You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirty-somethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer. What's left of the city appears nondescript and soulless, without any apparent centre or focal point. Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline. Around the core are soulless developments and ugly roads and bridges reminiscent of any Western city. It organised immigrant workers in the unorganised car plants and engineering firms and gave them a sense of community in the soulless neighbourhoods in which they lived. These out-of-town sites are soulless and can be seen all over the country. Well, it was the most soulless place I've ever been. Plenty of people who felt trapped inside that world promised themselves that they would never end up in such a soulless setting - and that they would certainly never make their own kids live there. The ground is lined on two sides by soulless, multi-lane roads, on another by a building site and on the fourth by five-storey public housing. It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence. The centre doesn't have much to attract people and it's a fairly soulless place. It's the most soulless place I have ever been to - no atmosphere at all. Chelsea's training ground at Harlington in west London is a bleak, soulless place. I think I know what he is trying to say - that modern England is an increasingly soulless place without distinction from other places. There can be no real comparison between the bright new Easterhouse, and the dark, soulless town of old. The commission has estimated the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims at £117m a year and say public spaces are becoming dreary, fun-free, soulless places. Synonyms characterless, featureless, bland, dull, colourless, dreary, drab, uninspiring, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, unmemorable, grey, anaemic, insipid ordinary, mundane, commonplace, average, mediocre, run-of-the-mill 1.1 (of an activity) tedious and uninspiring. （活动）单调乏味的；没有吸引力的 soulless, non-productive work 枯燥乏味、没有前途的工作。 Example sentencesExamples He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work. It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death. His work here, which is technically competent but soulless and uninspired, is unlikely to elevate him onto anyone's A-list. While tzedakah is a Jewish obligation, it is not meant to be fulfilled in a rote or soulless way. And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle. There was something in living things that went way, way beyond the soulless physical existence of the concrete jungle, and that mysterious force was something that needed to be preserved. In some cases, that's no doubt true; there's a lot of soulless work out there. Synonyms boring, dull, deadly dull, tedious, dreary, routine, humdrum, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting, uninspiring, unexciting, soul-destroying, mind-numbing, lifeless, dry monotonous, unvarying, repetitive, repetitious, mechanical 1.2 Lacking or suggesting the lack of human feelings and qualities. 冷漠无情的 two soulless black eyes were watching her 一双冷漠无情的黑眼睛冷冷地看着她。 Example sentencesExamples The higher purpose of art is evidently to correct the spiritual errors of a soulless, competitive, materialist society. I watch these things from above, sitting on my lofty treetop, observing this human suffering with my beady, soulless, black eyes. Dennis, brother of Roderick, also displays a soulless persona, unable to form emotional attachments with either women or men. In the end, we're not quite sure if the soulless quality of the milieu he chronicles is a reflection of the world outside his head or the one inside it. I remember his soulless eyes boring into mine in resentment, the detachedness of his touch, his monotonous voice. Even a fairly pathetic human being is better than being a soulless android. The Archbishop of York has condemned the Internet for ‘moving us towards a soulless society’ that will ‘reduce spiritualism and human intercourse’. Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason. The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development. Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes. Tarkovsky no doubt saw himself pursuing the spiritual in human existence against the soulless, corrupt and morally bankrupt Stalinist leadership. Government alone without religion is soulless and lacking any moral framework, they say. Derivatives soullessly adverb Sadly, the movie shifts gear into thriller denouement mode where everything soullessly clicks into place. Example sentencesExamples Many subsequent adaptations of literature typified the film industry's appetite for soullessly copying previous hits. I'll never understand how people can take such pleasure in struggling a wonky trolley around endless impersonal aisles of soullessly stacked goods week after week after week. Kids who have been beaten or deprived tend to grow up to be either soullessly obedient to their ‘superiors’, or else violently rebellious. It was typical of what one hears when the Philharmonic plays these days: astonishing feats of orchestral legerdemain that seem to serve no expressive purpose whatsoever as one soullessly turned phrase follows another. soullessness noun There's a cynical thread running through this novel that isn't merely limited to the soullessness of its criminals. Example sentencesExamples Stokoe shows great insight into the architecture of envy, and there are times when he makes you feel clearly why fame and wealth feel desperately important to someone who has sunk to a certain level of soullessness. Rock purists accuse electronic music of a number of sins, but none so much as the sin of soullessness. Anybody who spends time in a city doing anything other than going to work and coming home understands the soullessness of city life. Stark, bleak, wintry urban landscapes convey the soullessness of Middle America's existence and family life. Definition of soulless in US English: soulless adjectiveˈsōlˌləsˈsoʊlˌləs 1(of a building, room, or other place) lacking character and individuality. （建筑，房间，其他地方）缺乏个性的 she found the apartment beautiful but soulless 她觉得这套公寓虽然漂亮但缺乏个性。 Example sentencesExamples What's left of the city appears nondescript and soulless, without any apparent centre or focal point. Murrayfield can be a soulless place but when the national team performs as they did yesterday it fairly hums with emotion. The commission has estimated the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims at £117m a year and say public spaces are becoming dreary, fun-free, soulless places. The centre doesn't have much to attract people and it's a fairly soulless place. Well, it was the most soulless place I've ever been. Around the core are soulless developments and ugly roads and bridges reminiscent of any Western city. I think I know what he is trying to say - that modern England is an increasingly soulless place without distinction from other places. There can be no real comparison between the bright new Easterhouse, and the dark, soulless town of old. Chelsea's training ground at Harlington in west London is a bleak, soulless place. Arjun feels perfectly at home in this clean, soulless environment. It's the most soulless place I have ever been to - no atmosphere at all. Plenty of people who felt trapped inside that world promised themselves that they would never end up in such a soulless setting - and that they would certainly never make their own kids live there. It organised immigrant workers in the unorganised car plants and engineering firms and gave them a sense of community in the soulless neighbourhoods in which they lived. These out-of-town sites are soulless and can be seen all over the country. She hadn't imagined it would be a soulless room with blank walls, filled with nothing but vinyl, CDs and a stereo. I have found Brussels to be a soulless place, in which everything is closed in the evening. It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence. You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirty-somethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer. Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline. The ground is lined on two sides by soulless, multi-lane roads, on another by a building site and on the fourth by five-storey public housing. Synonyms characterless, featureless, bland, dull, colourless, dreary, drab, uninspiring, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, unmemorable, grey, anaemic, insipid 1.1 (of an activity) tedious and uninspiring. （活动）单调乏味的；没有吸引力的 soulless, nonproductive work 枯燥乏味、没有前途的工作。 Example sentencesExamples And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle. There was something in living things that went way, way beyond the soulless physical existence of the concrete jungle, and that mysterious force was something that needed to be preserved. He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work. While tzedakah is a Jewish obligation, it is not meant to be fulfilled in a rote or soulless way. His work here, which is technically competent but soulless and uninspired, is unlikely to elevate him onto anyone's A-list. It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death. In some cases, that's no doubt true; there's a lot of soulless work out there. Synonyms boring, dull, deadly dull, tedious, dreary, routine, humdrum, ho-hum, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting, uninspiring, unexciting, soul-destroying, mind-numbing, lifeless, dry 1.2 Lacking or suggesting the lack of human feelings and qualities. 冷漠无情的 two soulless black eyes were watching her 一双冷漠无情的黑眼睛冷冷地看着她。 Example sentencesExamples I watch these things from above, sitting on my lofty treetop, observing this human suffering with my beady, soulless, black eyes. Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason. Government alone without religion is soulless and lacking any moral framework, they say. Its markings were unmistakeable, as were the large, soulless, jet black eyes. I remember his soulless eyes boring into mine in resentment, the detachedness of his touch, his monotonous voice. Tarkovsky no doubt saw himself pursuing the spiritual in human existence against the soulless, corrupt and morally bankrupt Stalinist leadership. In the end, we're not quite sure if the soulless quality of the milieu he chronicles is a reflection of the world outside his head or the one inside it. Even a fairly pathetic human being is better than being a soulless android. The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development. Dennis, brother of Roderick, also displays a soulless persona, unable to form emotional attachments with either women or men. The higher purpose of art is evidently to correct the spiritual errors of a soulless, competitive, materialist society. The Archbishop of York has condemned the Internet for ‘moving us towards a soulless society’ that will ‘reduce spiritualism and human intercourse’.
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