What's the difference between soilless and soulless?

Soilless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of soil or mold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The yield and contents of ginsenoside of American ginseng in this soilless substrate are a little higher than those in ordinary soil.
  • (2) Soilless culture of terrestrial plants and tests with aquatic plants yielded about the same results.
  • (3) The results obtained in soilless culture on lettuces, tomatoes and egg-plant demonstrated that the amount of accumulated nitrate is also dependent on the equilibrium between the different ions in the nutrient solution.
  • (4) It is recommended that soilless culture of terrestrial plants be seriously considered in ecotoxicological testing.
  • (5) It was found that in soilless culture the EC50 values obtained were much lower than those in soil culture.
  • (6) The data indicate that vermiculite mixed with sand (volume 1:1) is the most suitable soilless substrate for P. quinquefolium, for it is loose and features good preservation of fertility, water retaining, drainage, and air permeability.
  • (7) The preservation capacity of water and fertility of several soilless cultivation substrates for Panax quinquefolium was compared in a large area.
  • (8) Apart from two types of soil, soilless culture was used in the test.
  • (9) Nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum Fo47b10 combined with Pseudomonas putida WCS358 efficiently suppressed fusarium wilt of carnations grown in soilless culture.

Soulless


Definition:

  • (a.) Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This looks like a soulless mass of concrete and glass that Soviet Russia made famous in their government buildings.
  • (2) The majority, however, are soulless, charmless glass boxes with no personality and, if not actively ugly, are not exactly beautiful either.
  • (3) "If you go there after dark, it is soulless," he said of the Westminster enclaves.
  • (4) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
  • (5) Today it is pressed up against new office blocks in a rather soulless business district.
  • (6) The follow-up Glass Spider tour was castigated for its soulless over-production.
  • (7) The only entertainment within walking distance of E3 is LA Live – a sort of bar and restaurant theme park, an alcoholic Disneyland, which is precisely as soulless and desperate as it sounds.
  • (8) Despite the deaths of two brothers and his best friend, Amer said he felt content and liberated to have left behind the materialism and soullessness of a secular society.
  • (9) In his preening, know-it-all professional arrogance, Cruise thinks he's bulletproof, but the mouse roars, and the hitman pays (incidentally, when casting a soullessly efficient, emotionally unavailable professional, could there be a more perfect candidate than Cruise?).
  • (10) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • (11) He was losing part-time jobs in call centres as fast as he could get them ("for wearing the wrong shoes, for telling the bosses they were soulless money-hungry pigs").
  • (12) Like journalism without grammar, the land without the family farm is meaningless, soulless, it goes to the core fabric of our nation,” he said.
  • (13) Comparisons between present-day China and the soulless, dreary totalitarian socialist state immortalised in Orwell's masterpiece are difficult to sustain after seeing clutch after clutch of Chinese teenagers, dressed in the latest quasi-Japanophile fashion, walk down a mobbed Beijing pedestrian shopping arcade nibbling at bouquets of candy floss and prattling on as if the phrase "commodity fetishism" had never crossed their young lips.
  • (14) This is an evil place, as airless and soulless as the inside of Pamela Geller’s head.
  • (15) Asked if Kilamba was somewhat soulless, he insisted: "It has character.
  • (16) It’s the unholy marriage of that soulless debate culture that works so well in Britain, transplanted to a nation with no social safety net and half a billion guns.
  • (17) The Baltimore city jail is a squalid, gray and soulless place.
  • (18) Now, he seems to be grudgingly continuing the impression , but his joy at the mocking the soullessness of the president-elect is clearly gone.
  • (19) Nehlen, like Trump, has railed against factory closures, promised to “repatriate” jobs to the US and branded Ryan a “soulless globalist”.
  • (20) The hospital is a sterile, soulless, modern unit and, visiting on a warm day, it’s a relief to escape to the garden outside.

Words possibly related to "soilless"

Words possibly related to "soulless"