What's the difference between love and loveless?

Love


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
  • (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  • (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  • (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
  • (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  • (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
  • (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  • (n.) A thin silk stuff.
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
  • (n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
  • (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
  • (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.

Loveless


Definition:

  • (a.) Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
  • (a.) Not attracting love; unattractive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His first, in fact, since just after the release of 1991's Loveless, along with Nirvana's Nevermind the most influential album of the 1990s.
  • (2) The statewide program began in 2009, on the recommendations of the coroner following the suicide of Simon John Loveless at Roebourne Regional Prison in 2007.
  • (3) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
  • (4) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
  • (5) But then, what's half an hour for a man whose three year procrastination over the recording of Loveless drained Creation Records of its resources and sent the label boss, Alan McGee , over the edge, and who spent a decade keeping Island Records waiting for a follow-up that never came?
  • (6) Eventually you will lose respect for one another and either break up or find yourselves locked into a loveless future.
  • (7) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
  • (8) The band's first release since 1991's classic Loveless trod a familiar path, but it was still one that only they have the map to follow.
  • (9) Any divorce settlement must be ugly enough to ensure the remaining 27 stay with their spouse, no matter how loveless that marriage might feel.
  • (10) We previously described the isolation of a human oncogene which had acquired transforming potential by a DNA rearrangement accompanying transfection of NIH 3T3 cells with human tumor DNA (X. Zhan, A. Culpepper, M. Reddy, J. Loveless, and M. Goldfarb, Oncogene 1:369-376, 1987).
  • (11) This wasn't the usual loveless EastEnders bouquet – a sickly-sweet accompaniment to the ever-present stench of batter mix, rotting market produce and Phil Mitchell's blouson runoff – but a pungent, altogether denser concoction.
  • (12) In a sign of the loveless nature of the coalition in the final six months before the general election, Baker announced his resignation in an interview with the Independent apparently without notifying the home secretary.
  • (13) Weird and shocking at first, but then you think how brilliant to live in this modern world where old people are allowed to escape loveless marriages.
  • (14) As Shields points out, 1991 saw not just huge outlays from Creation on Loveless but also on the label's other key releases of the era such as Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque and Primal Scream's Screamadelica.
  • (15) Apart from being mistaken for someone who might be a miserable, loveless killjoy, one also has to face the fact that one might be a bit, well, crazy – one of the people who can’t be trusted to be reliable parents, partners, or even employees.
  • (16) And if the making of Loveless was a song and dance, then the protracted process that led to its follow-up was a fully fledged fandango.
  • (17) He dismisses these conditions philosophically – "It's part of the job and we're all going to die anyway" – but when the tinnitus struck for the first time during the mixing of Loveless, he feared for his ears.
  • (18) But humans were not "doomed to carry on in a downward spiral of the greedy, addictive, loveless behaviour" that had brought mankind to this crisis and he urged people to scrutinise their lifestyles and policies and how these demonstrated care for creation.
  • (19) The Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman , called for an apology, and a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats – increasingly eager to show they are locked in a loveless marriage with Cameron – said: "We would not have used that language."
  • (20) The great themes of Gatsby are so quintessentially American that they recur endlessly throughout the nation's art anyway: Don Draper, with his occluded origins, unconquerable solitude and loveless prosperity, is Gatsby 1968; Sunset Boulevard grants Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis precisely the same delusions about recovering the past as are shared by Gatsby and Carraway; and the criminal origin of respectable fortunes is a time-worn narrative trope (The Godfather again).

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