loveless
without any love: a loveless marriage.
feeling no love.
receiving no love; unloved.
Origin of loveless
1Other words from loveless
- love·less·ly, adverb
- love·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby loveless
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How to use loveless in a sentence
You write that “there was probably never a more dangerous candidate than Diana to unwittingly enter a loveless marriage.”
Tina Brown Breaks Down the Biggest Royal Family Revelations From Her New Book | Charlie Campbell / London | April 25, 2022 | TimeIt’s clear that, in the midst of a loveless marriage, a tanking career that’s tied to that marriage, and his impending imprisonment, eating luxurious, delicious food is one of the few ways that Tom Wambsgans still experiences joy.
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 | THE 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 | THE DAILY BEASTloveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the Civil War.
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Washington could never have married a poor woman, but neither could he have tolerated a cold and loveless marriage.
But the marriage was loveless and lonely and McRay found herself meandering the manicured grounds, plotting her escape.
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. ByrumWitness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerThey say such thoughts are sinful, but annihilation is preferable to an aimless, loveless existence.
Alone | Marion HarlandThere 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) GuerberBut 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
/ (ˈlʌvlɪs) /
without love: a loveless marriage
receiving or giving no love
Derived forms of loveless
- lovelessly, adverb
- lovelessness, noun
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