passionless

English

Etymology

From passion +‎ -less.

Adjective

passionless (comparative more passionless, superlative most passionless)

1. Lacking in passion.

   Antonym: passionful

   The lecturer had a cold, passionless approach towards his subject.

   Summer is the most passionless season to me.

   • 1974 February 2, Michael Bronski, “If You Believe in Fairies...”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 16:

     Polite and passionless, a relic of a faded gentility.

Derived terms

• passionlessly
• passionlessness

Translations

Translations

Belarusian: бясстра́сны (be) (bjasstrásny) Bulgarian: безстрастен (bg) (bezstrasten) Finnish: intohimoton, innoton (fi) Hungarian: szenvedélytelen (hu) Polish: beznamiętny (pl) Russian: бесстра́стный (ru) (besstrástnyj) Ukrainian: безпри́страсний (uk) (bezprýstrasnyj)

See also

• apathetic
• indifferent