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passionless

/pash-uhn-lis/US // ˈpæʃ ən lɪs //UK // (ˈpæʃənlɪs) //

无激情,无情,没有激情,无热情

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not feeling or moved by passion; cold or unemotional; calm or detached.

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Examples

  • Their relationship is adrift and passionless, and the stranger seems to know it, “messaging her from the shadows and keeping his identity hidden while he judged her, exposed her.”

  • It feels tired and passionless, despite the presence of much skin throughout.

  • For those who think of Romney as a passionless man, you have to read the story of the courtship of his wife Ann.

  • But even here, the scenes are both passionless and humorless.

  • I think Juliet has always believed in passionless, blood full violence.

  • He sought to widen the domain of pleasure and narrow that of pain, and regarded a passionless state of life as the highest.

  • His quiet, passionless voice sounded strange to me; his words seemed strange, too, each one heavily weighted with hidden meaning.

  • "Then we are quits," she answered, in the listless, passionless voice that she seemed especially to affect.

  • The old passionless serenity, in which the human had been crushed out by the intellectual, was gone forever.

  • To bear what she had borne she must be a passionless woman; and she was glad of her present safety in thinking it.