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SOULLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soulless mean?
• SOULLESS (adjective)
The adjective SOULLESS has 1 sense:
1. lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling
Familiarity information: SOULLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling
Similar:
insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)
Context examples
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear; it seemed like the pleasure of fiends.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He is as Lucifer would be, were that proud spirit banished to a society of soulless, Tomlinsonian ghosts.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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