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lack-love

lack-love adjective: uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.

Adjective

lack-love (comparative more lack-love, superlative most lack-love)

  1. Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.
    • And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing—1917, Arthur Shearly Cripps, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War, page 17
    • The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing

Noun

lack-love (plural lack-loves)

  1. (obsolete) A heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.
    • Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, scene 2, lines 76–77

Forms of lack-love

Adjective
comparativemore lack-love
superlativemost lack-love
Noun
plurallack-loves

Origin of lack-love

From lack + love.

Questions about lack-love

What does lack-love mean?
Lack-love means uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.
What part of speech is lack-love?
Lack-love can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lack-love in the dictionary

  1. lack-laughter
  2. lack-learning
  3. lack-life
  4. lack-linen
  5. lack-looks
  6. lack-love
  7. lack-loves
  8. lack-lustre
  9. lack-mind
  10. lack-minds
  11. lack-pity

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