passionless
not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.
Origin of passionless
1Other words from passionless
- pas·sion·less·ly, adverb
- pas·sion·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby passionless
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How to use passionless in a sentence
Their relationship is adrift and passionless, and the stranger seems to know it, “messaging her from the shadows and keeping his identity hidden while he judged her, exposed her.”
Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text | Mark Athitakis | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostIt feels tired and passionless, despite the presence of much skin throughout.
TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2012-13’s New Shows | Jace Lacob, Maria Elena Fernandez | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFor those who think of Romney as a passionless man, you have to read the story of the courtship of his wife Ann.
But even here, the scenes are both passionless and humorless.
I think Juliet has always believed in passionless, blood full violence.
He sought to widen the domain of pleasure and narrow that of pain, and regarded a passionless state of life as the highest.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordHis quiet, passionless voice sounded strange to me; his words seemed strange, too, each one heavily weighted with hidden meaning.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. Chambers"Then we are quits," she answered, in the listless, passionless voice that she seemed especially to affect.
A Life Sentence | Adeline SergeantThe old passionless serenity, in which the human had been crushed out by the intellectual, was gone forever.
The New Tenant | E. Phillips OppenheimTo bear what she had borne she must be a passionless woman; and she was glad of her present safety in thinking it.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for passionless
/ (ˈpæʃənlɪs) /
empty of emotion or feeling: a passionless marriage
calm and detached; dispassionate
Derived forms of passionless
- passionlessly, adverb
- passionlessness, noun
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