loveless

[ luhv-lis ]

adjective

1. without any love:

   a loveless marriage.

2. feeling no love.
3. receiving no love; unloved.

loveless

/ ˈlʌvlɪs /

adjective

1. without love

   a loveless marriage

2. receiving or giving no love

Derived Forms

• ˈlovelessness, noun
• ˈlovelessly, adverb

Other Words From

• loveless·ly adverb
• loveless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of loveless¹

First recorded in 1275–1325, loveless is from the Middle English word loveles. See love, -less

Example Sentences

You write that “there was probably never a more dangerous candidate than Diana to unwittingly enter a loveless marriage.”

From Time

It’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.

From Eater

Representing “Loveless” is a Grant member whom Vaillant refers to as “Sam Lovelace.”

From The Daily Beast

“Like many of the Loveless men, it was hard for him to let love in,” writes Vaillant.

From The Daily Beast

Loveless is an ex-Confederate scientist who hopes to get back at the North for winning the Civil War.

From The Daily Beast

Washington could never have married a poor woman, but neither could he have tolerated a cold and loveless marriage.

From The Daily Beast

But the marriage was loveless and lonely and McRay found herself meandering the manicured grounds, plotting her escape.

From The Daily Beast

After the cold, formal, loveless life at her aunt's, she appreciated her own humble home more than ever before.

From Project Gutenberg

Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.

From Project Gutenberg

They say such thoughts are sinful, but annihilation is preferable to an aimless, loveless existence.

From Project Gutenberg

There he lived a loveless and solitary life, in a house whose only partitions were chalk lines across the floor.

From Project Gutenberg

But of this be sure, that no selfish, loveless egoist could have had and retained such friends.

From Project Gutenberg