passionless

[ pash-uhn-lis ]

adjective

1. not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.

ˈpassionless

/ ˈpæʃənlɪs /

adjective

1. empty of emotion or feeling

   a passionless marriage

2. calm and detached; dispassionate

Derived Forms

• ˈpassionlessness, noun
• ˈpassionlessly, adverb

Other Words From

• passion·less·ly adverb
• passion·less·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of passionless¹

First recorded in 1605–15; passion + -less

Example Sentences

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.”

From Washington Post

It feels tired and passionless, despite the presence of much skin throughout.

From The Daily Beast

For those who think of Romney as a passionless man, you have to read the story of the courtship of his wife Ann.

From The Daily Beast

But even here, the scenes are both passionless and humorless.

From The Daily Beast

I think Juliet has always believed in passionless, blood full violence.

From The Daily Beast

He sought to widen the domain of pleasure and narrow that of pain, and regarded a passionless state of life as the highest.

From Project Gutenberg

His quiet, passionless voice sounded strange to me; his words seemed strange, too, each one heavily weighted with hidden meaning.

From Project Gutenberg

"Then we are quits," she answered, in the listless, passionless voice that she seemed especially to affect.

From Project Gutenberg

The old passionless serenity, in which the human had been crushed out by the intellectual, was gone forever.

From Project Gutenberg

To bear what she had borne she must be a passionless woman; and she was glad of her present safety in thinking it.

From Project Gutenberg