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Passionless definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAS'SIONLESS, a. Not easily excited to anger; of a calm temper.
1. Void of passion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature" [ant: passionate]
2: unmoved by feeling; "he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served"; "this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine"-Margaret Deland [syn: emotionless, passionless]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see passion

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Passionless Pas"sion*less, a. Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. ``Self-contained and passionless.'' --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone or something as passionless, you mean that they do not have or show strong feelings. ...a passionless academic. ...their late and apparently passionless marriage. ? passionate ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Impassive, unsusceptible, unimpressible, apathetic, cold, phlegmatic, stoical, cold-blooded, without passion or feeling, self-contained. 2. Cool, calm, collected, unmoved, quiet, imperturbable, of a calm temper.

Moby Thesaurus

affectless, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, autistic, blunt, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, desireless, detached, dispassionate, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, heartless, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, inappetent, indifferent, inexcitable, inhibited, insusceptible, loveless, nirvanic, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, out of touch, self-absorbed, soulless, spiritless, unaffected, unaffectionate, unambitious, unaspiring, unattracted, uncaring, unconcerned, undersexed, undesirous, uneager, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unmoved, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable