Definition of "loveless" []

• Characterized by an absence of love: a loveless marriage. (adjective)
• Exhibiting or feeling no love; unloving: a loveless glance. (adjective)
• Receiving no love; unloved: a loveless child. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Readers who love the character of Anna Karenina can disagree with Tolstoy that God should (and will) punish women stuck in loveless marriages, and who fall under the spells of heedless cads, and who are subsequently ostracized by polite society and former friends."
• "And, on the other hand, 30-something women who suddenly find themselves in loveless marriages and just want to break free and live life a little."
• "It was what they call a loveless marriage, pretty much sexless although Margo is almost 6, so there is that."