Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by an absence of love: a loveless marriage.
- adj. Exhibiting or feeling no love; unloving: a loveless glance.
- adj. Receiving no love; unloved: a loveless child.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Void of love; unloving; wanting tenderness or kindness.
- Not loved; not attracting love; unlovable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without love.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
- adj. Not attracting love; unattractive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. without love
- adj. receiving no love
Etymologies
- love + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Readers who love the character of Anna Karenina can disagree with Tolstoy that God should (and will) punish women stuck in loveless marriages, and who fall under the spells of heedless cads, and who are subsequently ostracized by polite society and former friends.”
"What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?"
“And, on the other hand, 30-something women who suddenly find themselves in loveless marriages and just want to break free and live life a little.”
Global Voices in English » Alex Castro: A liberal, libertarian and libertine Brazilian blogger
“It was what they call a loveless marriage, pretty much sexless although Margo is almost 6, so there is that.”
“Every homophobe should rent the movie “Brokeback Mountain” and realize that there are many men in loveless marriages to females who secretly go fishing with their buddies, but really are secret lovers who wish they could be hitched!”
Think Progress » Bush schedules pandering session for Monday.
“It was a long-term loveless marriage that was characterized by a lack of care, compassion, understanding.”
“He is generally described as a loveless old man, but his biographers seem to forget the influences that surrounded his childhood.”
“Betty Driver of Coronation Street recalls loveless childhood”
“The prevalence of "loveless" unions and "cheating" spouses begs the question: are the Chinese unhappy?”
The Huffington Post: Tom Doctoroff: Sex in China: Prudence and Prurience
“Scud," as it's called around the company, showed men and women in everyday guises and in second-skin body suits of strong, solid colors who are trapped in, tortured by, or just striding through a kind of loveless Limbo.”
“Within the sphere of phenomena, to which the intellect is confined, there seems to be, instead of a benevolent purpose, a world ruled by a power indifferent to the triumph of evil over good, and either "loveless" or unintelligent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loveless’.
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A Love List
lovely, loveable, lovemaking, love-suit, loveless, love-hate, lovey, lovelorn, lovesick, love-sickness, lovefest, lovebird and 91 more...
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love phrases/words
how love is used
love work, love word, love-wildered, love-whispering, love visit, love verse, love veil, love-trick, love triangle, love tree, love-toy, love-touched and 273 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, jobless, endless, useless, unless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, nevertheless, countless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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