: having no soul or no greatness or warmth of mind or feeling
soullessly
adverb
soullessness
noun
Synonyms
- affectless
- callous
- case-hardened
- cold-blooded
- compassionless
- desensitized
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- heartless
- indurate
- inhuman
- inhumane
- insensate
- insensitive
- ironhearted
- merciless
- obdurate
- pachydermatous
- pitiless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- slash-and-burn
- stony
- stoney
- stonyhearted
- take-no-prisoners
- thick-skinned
- uncharitable
- unfeeling
- unmerciful
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
Examples of soulless in a Sentence
a government run by soulless bureaucrats
These companies are heartless, soulless, money-making machines.
The houses in the new development are completely soulless.
Recent Examples on the Web
More from Cooper, on this same theme: The public, every where, is proverbially soulless.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
Perhaps that’s why, in a city of constant and often soulless renovation, the apartment seems like a special kind of palimpsest, a place that both adheres to and refutes its own history.
—Alice Newell-Hanson, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
London has seen a deluge of hotel openings over the last few years—many of which are state-of-the-art, yes, but also a little soulless.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
Sadly, the Action Office soon devolved into soulless cubicle farms, pilloried in Dilbert cartoons and despised by office workers everywhere.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023
Director Martin Scorsese repeats so many variations on this depressing mistreatment that experiencing the film is akin to being locked in a room with a pair of soulless sadists.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
And, as directed by Alex Timbers, the scenes move with sleekly bustling if soulless efficiency.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
An overlong, windy film that purports to investigate the hypocrisy, shallowness and moral decay of wealthy Italians but feels too embedded in that world to have much bite, this is a soulless bit of self-indulgence that seems far too pleased with itself.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
That’s the cruel twist of irony that soulless network bigwigs and greedy administrators have heaped on your plate this fall.
—Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
Perhaps that’s why, in a city of constant and often soulless renovation, the apartment seems like a special kind of palimpsest, a place that both adheres to and refutes its own history.
—Alice Newell-Hanson, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
London has seen a deluge of hotel openings over the last few years—many of which are state-of-the-art, yes, but also a little soulless.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
Sadly, the Action Office soon devolved into soulless cubicle farms, pilloried in Dilbert cartoons and despised by office workers everywhere.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023
Director Martin Scorsese repeats so many variations on this depressing mistreatment that experiencing the film is akin to being locked in a room with a pair of soulless sadists.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
And, as directed by Alex Timbers, the scenes move with sleekly bustling if soulless efficiency.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
An overlong, windy film that purports to investigate the hypocrisy, shallowness and moral decay of wealthy Italians but feels too embedded in that world to have much bite, this is a soulless bit of self-indulgence that seems far too pleased with itself.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
That’s the cruel twist of irony that soulless network bigwigs and greedy administrators have heaped on your plate this fall.
—Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of soulless was
before the 12th century
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“Soulless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soulless. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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soulless
adverb
soul·less
ˈsōl-ləs 
: having no soul or no greatness or nobleness of mind or feeling
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