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Definition of loveless in English: lovelessadjective ˈlʌvləsˈləvləs Having no feelings of love. I was trapped in a loveless marriage and there was no way out Example sentencesExamples - Instead of feeling sad about those broken vows, perhaps we should be applauding the fact that fewer people are prepared to put up with staying in a loveless marriage.
- This ripping read chronicles the tragic results of a loveless marriage and a passionate affair.
- The landscape is unremittingly bleak, filled with dashed hopes, destroyed lives, and loveless relationships.
- Jim ends up in a loveless, passionless marriage with no children and a job in law.
- She was, my student says, forced into a loveless marriage.
Synonyms passionless, unloving, unfeeling, heartless, undemonstrative, unresponsive, cold, cold-hearted, icy, frigid
Derivativesadverbˈlʌvləsliˈləvləsli Her clear eyes gazed lovelessly at me as I stood still, my own eyes burning into hers in hope of inflicting some emotional torture. Example sentencesExamples - The two countries, ostensibly allies, too often view each other suspiciously and lovelessly.
- The good people of my parish lost their individuality and were absorbed into my mental picture of ‘Episcopalians,’ people to whom I would be heroically but lovelessly loyal.
- Rose is an orphan who has been living in New York City, luxuriously but lovelessly.
- Its characters went from apprehension to despair and grappled lovelessly, but with erotic intensity.
noun Our present economic social and international arrangements are based to a large extent on organised lovelessness. Example sentencesExamples - She had been married to him when she was twelve or thereabouts, embarking on a life of poverty, drudgery and lovelessness.
- It is also of course a very eighties song, a very eighties thing, with its chest-beating passion and crippling lovelessness.
- But when there is a chance to confront the lovelessness and loss of respect in Phil's household, there is a palpable sense of transformation.
- The unfortunate girl only exchanges one kind of lovelessness for another.
Definition of loveless in US English: lovelessadjectiveˈləvləsˈləvləs Having no feelings of love. I was trapped in a loveless marriage and there was no way out Example sentencesExamples - This ripping read chronicles the tragic results of a loveless marriage and a passionate affair.
- Jim ends up in a loveless, passionless marriage with no children and a job in law.
- She was, my student says, forced into a loveless marriage.
- The landscape is unremittingly bleak, filled with dashed hopes, destroyed lives, and loveless relationships.
- Instead of feeling sad about those broken vows, perhaps we should be applauding the fact that fewer people are prepared to put up with staying in a loveless marriage.
Synonyms passionless, unloving, unfeeling, heartless, undemonstrative, unresponsive, cold, cold-hearted, icy, frigid
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