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UK
/pˈæʃənləs/
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ADJECTIVE
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unmoved by feeling
he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served
this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine -
not passionate
passionless observation of human nature
How To Use passionless In A Sentence
- Since they are called the passionless (nirgu. na) worshippers of the passionless K. rish.na, therefore, in consequence of that, all their acts are also (called) passionless (nirgu. na). The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect
- Because, contrary to what's been said about us in the past, New Zealanders are not a passionless people, and the brightest gems will sometimes be found lurking in a hole in the ground, clad in blue overalls.
- Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler.
- ‘Rarely has an important political figure in [Massachusetts] engendered such passionless support,’ the Boston Globe reported.
- Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
- To his critics, he is an compassionless bureaucrat who denies cancer patients lifesaving medicines using red tape and fine print.
- But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him! A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
- One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
- One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters. I'll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.