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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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Meaning of "passionless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PASSIONLESS

passionless  [ˈpæʃənlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASSIONLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Passionless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PASSIONLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of passionless in the English dictionary

The definition of passionless in the dictionary is empty of emotion or feeling. Other definition of passionless is calm and detached; dispassionate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PASSIONLESS


actionless
ˈækʃənlɪs
compassionless
kəmˈpæʃənlɪs
complexionless
kəmˈplekʃənlɪs
dimensionless
daɪˈmenʃənlɪs
directionless
dɪˈrɛkʃənlɪs
flectionless
ˈflekʃənlɪs
flexionless
ˈflɛkʃənlɪs
functionless
ˈfʌŋkʃənlɪs
inflectionless
ɪnˈflɛkʃənlɪs
motionless
ˈməʊʃənlɪs
nationless
ˈneɪʃənlɪs
oppositionless
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃənlɪs
pretensionless
prɪˈtenʃənlɪs
proportionless
prəˈpɔːʃənlɪs
radiationless
ˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃənlɪs
reflectionless
rɪˈflɛkʃənlɪs
sanctionless
ˈsæŋkʃənlɪs
suspicionless
səˈspɪʃənlɪs
unctionless
ˈʌŋkʃənlɪs
vibrationless
vaɪˈbreɪʃənlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASSIONLESS

passion
passion fruit
passion killer
Passion play
Passion Sunday
Passion Week
passional
passionary
passionate
passionately
passionateness
passionflower
passionlessly
passionlessness
passions
Passiontide
passivate
passivation
passive
passive balance of trade

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASSIONLESS

bottomless
brainless
buttonless
carbonless
chainless
crownless
emotionless
expressionless
finless
frictionless
painless
rainless
seasonless
signless
sinless
skinless
stainless
sunless
thornless
unless
winless

Synonyms and antonyms of passionless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PASSIONLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «passionless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of passionless

Translation of «passionless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASSIONLESS

Find out the translation of passionless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of passionless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «passionless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

感情的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin pasión
570 millions of speakers

English

passionless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धीर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أحاسيس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесстрастный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passionless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবেগহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans passion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ghairah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

leidenschaftslos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冷静な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

열정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semangat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không kịch liệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விருப்பமில்லாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आकस्मिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heyecansız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impassibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

beznamiętny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безпристрасний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pasiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απαθής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

passielose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

känslo
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

passion
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of passionless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSIONLESS»

The term «passionless» is regularly used and occupies the 96.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSIONLESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about passionless

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2 QUOTES WITH «PASSIONLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word passionless.
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Joe Biden
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
2
Czeslaw Milosz
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSIONLESS»

Discover the use of passionless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to passionless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity
Passionless Moments bears the traces of somebody else's work, in that it has a lighter tone than is characteristic of the films we associate with Campion. Even the other contemporaneous short student films that Campion made on her own are ...
Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox, Irène Bessière, 2009
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The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban ...
6. 'Passionless. reformers': the. museum. and. the. city. in. Utopia1. Nicole. Pohl. Recent museum studies have revised the traditional approach to museum history and have instead developed an 'effective' historiography that places the ...
Michaela Giebelhausen, 2003
3
Burtons' Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review
Thlt call me cold and passionless — ah ! little do they know How deep and strong the current is that silently doth flow ; The babbling brook and rivulet in noisy murmurs plash, And loud the mountain torrent's heard from rocky height to dash ; But ...
‎1839
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Burtons' Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review
THLT call me cold and passionless — all ! little do they know How deep Tmd strong the current is that silently doth flow ; The babbling brook and rivulet in noisy murmurs plash, And loud the mountain torrent's heard from rocky height to dash ...
William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, 1839
5
Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries: Literature, ...
One of these elements is "envy," which Kierkegaard regards as the "negative unifying principle" of a reflective and passionless age, in contrast to "enthusiasm," which is the unifying principle of a passionate age. Envy, which has gained a ...
Jon Bartley Stewart, 2009
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Jane Campion
Passionless Moments brilliantly counterpoises the poignant subjective content of its voiceover with the narrator's wry tone of voice and the film's arch cinematography, both meta-narrative structures that let the film have its pathos while ironizing ...
Kathleen Anne McHugh, 2007
7
Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-sex Sexuality in ...
Although the white, middle-class penal reformers who advocated passionless penitentiaries hoped to rehabilitate wayward white males to virtue and citizenship , they had little to say about the disproportionately lower- class, black, and ...
Thomas A. Foster, 2007
8
The Carter Presidency: A Re-evaluation
The former, who had worked in Carter's White House as a speech-writer, published two pieces in the journal Atlantic Monthly in 1979 under the title, 'The Passionless Presidency'. Drawing together received journalistic wisdom, Fallows added ...
John Dumbrell, 1995
9
Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society
Whereas it was once the province of a social class or occupation, in a reflective and passionless age it is accomplished by the public. The public is an abstraction in that the members do not interact with one another; therefore, the public's ...
Richard Stivers, 2004
10
God, Evil, and Ethics: A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion
But, although it is better for You to be sensitive, omnipotent, compassionate, passionless, than not to be these things; how are You sensitive, if You are not a body; or omnipotent, if You have not all powers; or at once compassionate and ...
Eric v.d. Luft

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASSIONLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term passionless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Movies: New and Noteworthy
... gay man who re-evaluates his loving, if passionless, 35-year marriage to Joy (Kathy Baker) when he falls for a male hustler (Roberto Aguire). «Philly.com, Jul 15»
2
New Releases
... self-effacing 60-year old closeted gay man who re-evaluates his loving, if passionless 35 year marriage to Joy (Kathy Baker) when he falls for ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
3
The Nicki Minaj-Taylor Swift-Katy Perry Feud Just Saved the VMAs
... mattering more than music, and the mindlessness of it all has made the show passionless. Boring. Irrelevant. Could that finally be changing? «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
4
Labour's robotic women don't stand a chance against Jeremy Corbyn
It felt robotic, passionless. It's as if she's a female version of the tin man from the Wizard of Oz, who doesn't have a heart. Even a straightforward ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Teen Daze | Morning World (Paper Bag)
But just because it's soft doesn't mean it should be passionless, and I was missing that fire. The lyrics that were given, however, were very ... «Play by Play, Jul 15»
6
Love rival comedy features in summer programme
... play tells the story of best friends Julia and Jane, who are enjoying a little freedom while their passionless husbands are away playing golf. «Cumbria Live, Jul 15»
7
Listen to Jon Stewart! What the president learned from the “Daily …
... have much in common: One is a bitterly ironic journalist famous for refusing to suffer fools, the other a dry, sometimes passionless politician. «Salon, Jul 15»
8
Review: Game of Thrones: Episode 5 - A Nest of Vipers (PS4)
The problem is that it all feels so passionless. It's almost as if the writers are working their way down a checklist, looking at unanswered ... «Push Square, Jul 15»
9
Robin Williams Would Have Turned 64 Today: See His Life in Photos
He appears in the forthcoming drama, Boulevard, in which he plays Nolan, a middle-aged man stuck in a rut and a passionless marriage to a ... «E! Online, Jul 15»
10
Historic achievement, but flag that for a celebration
We see it as passionless and dry. And we sneer even more at the doers of it. As always the language we use gives us away. Even when we're ... «The Press, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Passionless [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/passionless>. Apr 2024 ».
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