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Definition of "passionless" [pas•sion•less]

  • Lacking strong emotion or feeling: a rather passionless plea for clemency. (adjective)
  • Unbiased or impartial; detached: a newspaper's passionless account of a sensational trial. (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.

Use "passionless" in a sentence
  • "At the onset, we see her engaging in passionless, cocaine-fueled sex with an undesirable partner, dismissing the affections of a desirable one, and managing depression by slamming her hand in a dresser drawer."
  • "Lyric courtesy of Nobody can doubt the sincerity of his words, or his outrage at the murders, but the deep monotone he used rendered his word passionless and perfunctory."
  • "This is shown through flashbacks and although there are plenty of fire fighting scenes I found it strangely passionless, which is how Tom felt also."