loveless

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love·less

(lŭv′lĭs)

adj.

1. Characterized by an absence of love: a loveless marriage.

2. Exhibiting or feeling no love; unloving: a loveless glance.

3. Receiving no love; unloved: a loveless child.

love′less·ly adv.

love′less·ness n.

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loveless

(ˈlʌvlɪs)

adj

1. without love: a loveless marriage.

2. receiving or giving no love

ˈlovelessly adv

ˈlovelessness n

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love•less

(ˈlʌv lɪs)

adj.

1. lacking love: a loveless marriage.

2. receiving no love.

love′less•ly, adv.

love′less•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	loveless - without love; "a loveless marriage" unloving - not giving or reciprocating affection
	2.	loveless - receiving no love; "a loveless childhood" unloved - not loved

loveless

adjective

1. unloving, hard, cold, icy, insensitive, unfriendly, heartless, frigid, unresponsive, unfeeling, cold-hearted She is in a loveless relationship.

2. unloved, disliked, forsaken, lovelorn, friendless, unappreciated, unvalued, uncherished A busy professional life had left her loveless at the age of 30.

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Translations

disamorato insensibile senza amore

loveless

[ˈlʌvlɪs] ADJ → sin amor

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

loveless

[ˈlʌvləs] adj → sans amourlove letter n → lettre f d'amourlove life n → vie f sentimentale
How's your love life? → Comment vont les amours?

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

loveless

[ˈlʌvlɪs] adj → senza amore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Never had I had the heart to punish Woola during the long years that had passed since that first day upon Mars when the green jed of the Tharks had placed him on guard over me, and I had won his love and loyalty from the cruel and loveless masters of his former life, yet I believe he would have submitted to any cruelty that I might have inflicted upon him, so wondrous was his affection for me.

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But the momentary contact had aroused within Tario all the long-buried passions of his loveless existence.

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She had worked like a great artist; for a time--indeed, for years--she had been meaningless, but at the end there was presented to the girl the complete picture of a cheerless, loveless world in which the young rush to destruction until they learn better--a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good, if we may judge from those who have used them most.