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Definition: Soulless |
SoullessAdjective1. Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soulless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
Synonym: SoullessSynonym: lifeless. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog. |
Insensibility | Adjective: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soulless |
| English words defined with "soulless": soullessly. (references) |
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| "Soulless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soulless" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
soulless | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soulless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashpirt (callous, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, heartless, heavy-handed, insensate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا إنساني, عديم النفس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), бездушен (exanimate, heartless, indurate, niminy-piminy, spiritless, toneless, torpid, unanimated, unsympathetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bez citu (coldly, dead, insentient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sieluton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans c"ur, inhumain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seelenlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευτελήσ (cheap, low, mean, shabby, tacky, worthless), άκαρδοσ (heartless, spiritless), άψυχοσ (exanimate, inanimate, insentient, lifeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelketlen (heartless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn annym (flat, flat mood, inanimate, spiritless), cree-vrishagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oullesssay sem sentimentos (unfeeling), sem interesse (arid, chippy, flat, pet, prosaic, tame, vapid, vapidity), vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, gossipy, gross, hackney, hackneyed, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-minded, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian, penny-a-line, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, ready-made, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), desumano (atrocious, fell, flint-hearted, flinty, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, merciless, ruthless, unmerciful). (various references) fãrã inimã (cold-hearted, heartless). (various references) бездушный (callous, uninspired). (various references) bezdušan (cold-hearted, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate). (various references) sin alma, mecánico (chauffeur, driver, engineer, fitterman, grease monkey, machine, machinist, mechanic, mechanical, mechanistic, perfunctory, power driven, repairman, rigger). (various references) själlös (mindless), andefatting. (various references) ไร้วิญญา". (various references) sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), ruhsuz (dead alive, dull, impassive, inanimate, spiritless, stagnant, wooden), monoton (drab, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, opaque, soul-destroying), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, torpid), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, chippy, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, sullen, tedious, unexeciting, vexatious, worrisome, worrying). (various references) rehimsiz (heartless, ruthless). (various references) бездушний (brute, callous, chill, hardened, hard-hearted, hollow-hearted, inanimate, ossified). (various references) tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), không có tâm h"n không h"n, không có sức truyền cảm, không có sức sống. (various references) dienaid (senseless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soulless": soullessly, soullessness, soullessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Soulless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soules, sousliks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "soulless" (pronounced sō"llus) |
| 4 | -l l u s | guileless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: losels, losses, louses, ousels, soleus, souses. | |
-3 letters: loess, losel, loses, louse, ousel, sells, sloes, slues, soles, solus, souls, souse. | |
-4 letters: ells, less, lose, loss, lues, oles, oses, sell, sels, sloe, slue, sole, sols, soul, sous, sues, suss, uses. | |
-5 letters: ell, els, ess, leu, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol, sos, sou, sue, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: soullessly. | |
+3 letters: callousness, solubilises, soulfulness, soundlessly. | |
+4 letters: allosauruses, illusoriness, slothfulness, soliloquises, soullessness. | |
+5 letters: callousnesses, cloudlessness, dolefulnesses, insolubleness, purposelessly, soulfulnesses, supercolossal, trolleybusses, volublenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 6C 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..- .-.. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u l l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 006C 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381877878718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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