loveless
/ˈlʌvləs
/adjective
Having no feelings of love: a young wife trapped in a loveless marriage...
- This ripping read chronicles the tragic results of a loveless marriage and a passionate affair.
- Jim ends up in a loveless, passionless marriage with no children and a job in law.
- She was, my student says, forced into a loveless marriage.
Synonyms
passionless, unloving, unfeeling, heartless, undemonstrative, unresponsive, cold, cold-hearted, icy, frigid
Derivatives
lovelessly
/ adverb ...- The two countries, ostensibly allies, too often view each other suspiciously and lovelessly.
- The good people of my parish lost their individuality and were absorbed into my mental picture of ‘Episcopalians,’ people to whom I would be heroically but lovelessly loyal.
- Her clear eyes gazed lovelessly at me as I stood still, my own eyes burning into hers in hope of inflicting some emotional torture.
lovelessness
- It is also of course a very eighties song, a very eighties thing, with its chest-beating passion and crippling lovelessness.
- Our present economic social and international arrangements are based to a large extent on organised lovelessness.
- But when there is a chance to confront the lovelessness and loss of respect in Phil's household, there is a palpable sense of transformation.