PASSIONLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passionless mean? 

• PASSIONLESS (adjective)
  The adjective PASSIONLESS has 2 senses:

1. not passionate

2. unmoved by feeling

  Familiarity information: PASSIONLESS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSIONLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not passionate

Context example:

passionless observation of human nature

Similar:

platonic (free from physical desire)

unimpassioned (free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness)

Also:

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

unenthusiastic (not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor)

cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)

Antonym:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unmoved by feeling

Synonyms:

emotionless; passionless

Context example:

this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine

Similar:

cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)

 Context examples 

I was not beaten, or starved; but the wrong that was done to me had no intervals of relenting, and was done in a systematic, passionless manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With little Adele in my arms, I watched the slumber of childhood—so tranquil, so passionless, so innocent—and waited for the coming day: all my life was awake and astir in my frame: and as soon as the sun rose I rose too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She sat upright in her arm-chair, with a stately, immovable, passionless air, that it seemed as if nothing could disturb.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)