soulless
UK/ˈsəʊl.ləs//ˈsoʊl.ləs/
soulless adjective: as if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
Adjective
soulless (comparative more soulless, superlative most soulless)
- As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
- Go backe I warrant thee: but Ile catch thine eyes / Though they had wings. Slaue, Soule-leſſe, Villain, Dog. / O rarely baſe!c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Oh! who young Leila's glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12
soulless meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese
soulless in Urdu
- بےجان, بےجذبہ, بےروح
soulless in Malayalam
- featureless, bland, characterless
- ആത്മാവില്ലാത്ത, ചെെതന്യമില്ലാത്ത, ഓജസ്സില്ലാത്ത, പ്രത്യേകതയില്ലാത്ത, സവിശേഷതയില്ലാത്ത, എരിവും പുളിയും കുറഞ്ഞ
- tedious, boring, dull
- വിരസമായ, മുഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, മുഷിപ്പനായ, മുഷിഞ്ഞ, അരസികം, മടുപ്പിക്കുന്ന
soulless in Kannada
- ಸ್ನೇಹಮಯವಲ್ಲದ, ಭಾವರಹಿತ, ಭಾವದೂರ, ಸತ್ವರಹಿತ, ಭಾವನಾರಹಿತ
soulless in Vietnamese
- as if without a soul
- vô hồn
Examples of soulless in a sentence
- “Done?” he said, with a soulless sneer in the word.1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLVI, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to...
- Number One had never before seen a woman, but the sight of this one awoke in the unplumbed depths of his soulless breast a great desire to lay his hands upon her.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Monster Men, published 1929:
Forms of soulless
| comparative | more soulless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most soulless |
Origin of soulless
From Middle English soulelez; equivalent to soul + -less. Compare Old English sāwollēas; the Middle English word likely is a re-formation.
Words formed from soulless
Questions about soulless
- What does soulless mean?
- Soulless means as if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
- What is soulless in Urdu?
- Soulless in Urdu is بےجان, بےجذبہ, بےروح. See Soulless meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use soulless in a sentence?
- “Done?” he said, with a soulless sneer in the word.
- What part of speech is soulless?
- Soulless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce soulless?
- Soulless is pronounced /ˈsəʊl.ləs/ (UK).
Words near soulless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: soulless (page history and authors); soulless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soulless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); soulless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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