英:[ˈsəʊlləs]
美:[ˈsoʊlləs]
英:[ˈsəʊlləs]
美:[ˈsoʊlləs]
soul·less
sol lihs
soullessly (adv.), soullessness (n.)
词根:soul
adj.soul 美国黑人文化的
soulful 感情上的;高尚的;充满精神的
adv.soulfully 充满感情地;感情深切地;过于激动地
n.soul 灵魂;心灵;精神;鬼魂
soulfulness 充满感情;感情深切
中古英语 soulelez,源自古英语 sawolleas “死的,无生命的”; 参见 soul(n.1)+ -less。中古英语单词可能是一种再构词。1550年代开始出现“没有精神,没有表情”的意义,1630年代开始出现“乏味的,平淡无奇的”意义。德语中也有类似的构词 Seellos。相关词汇: Soullessness。
The first known use of soulless was before the 12th century
soul1 of 2noun
the spiritual part of a person believed to give life to the body and in many religions thought to live forever
the necessary part of something
a person who leads or stirs others to action : leader
the soul of the campaign
the part of one's personality having to do with feelings and the sense of what is right and wrong
felt my soul rebel against injustice
spiritual force : fervor
person
a kind soul
a strong positive feeling conveyed especially by Black American performers
soul music
soul2 of 2adjective
of or relating to Black Americans or their culture
soul food
designed for or controlled by Black people
soul radio stations
soullessadverb
having no soul or no greatness or nobleness of mind or feeling
1 Ribowsky also takes some shots at the record industry — “one of the most venal and soulless entities ever known” — and delves deep into the competition between Stax and Motown Records.
2 I’ve generally found their movies to be soulless exercises in icy style, but their expert sense of film rhythms and atmosphere cannot be denied.
3 It is, and not only because it displays the soulless nature of our fame-obsessed youth culture.
4 Sometimes the sites think more like soulless machines than like humans.
5 With boarded-up windows and rundown warehouses, the Central Eastside Industrial District looked soulless.
6 In 11 years Hannibal Lecter’s notoriety has grown rather than lessened, and he is no joke — although, like all great monsters, he is not without a certain soulless sense of humor.
7 This London — soulless, anonymous, thoughtlessly modern — is the very image of a 21st-century abyss.
8 I cringed through “MJ,” which felt like a very expensive, yet soulless, karaoke night at the theater.
9 Says Rumbelow, it's a million miles from the usual "soulless" request he gets from the industry: "To make actors cry on cue."
10 This original and hugely moving take on a part of modern life that's often derided as soulless was full of such moments: soaring, surprising and enriching.
11 A few weeks after the demise of “John Carter,” the mega-disaster of “Battleship” was released, a completely soulless piece of corporate pandering that was truly made by collective idiots.
12 Growing up in Las Vegas, Ms. McKinley said, she viewed her hometown as a soulless entity.
13 In “Open Winkins” three of four brothers vanish for a month and return as soulless zombies.
14 These days industrialization is more likely to be seen as bland and soulless, especially as the deepening environmental crisis makes it impossible to ignore its dangers.
15 Or is it soulless bobbins that’s degrading the fabric of art and society as we know it?
16 In one scene, Mr. Ingebretson’s character describes himself as “a cog in a soulless corporate machine” while his bosses scroll on their phones.
17 He has the voice down pat: the cheerful, soulless “Hello!” of a spambot inviting you into an abyssal call center from which you may never return.
18 Madonna also did the world a favour in revealing Don McLean's American Pie to be soulless, leaden tripe with no meaning at its heart.
19 When it came out in 1960, À Bout de Souffle stuck two fingers up to the studios still trying to pump money into soulless epics such as Cleopatra.
20 People all over the world think they know something about Appalachia because they’ve seen “Deliverance,” which is a well-made but terribly stereotypical thriller portraying hillbillies as soulless, illiterate and mean-hearted villains.
1 残酷
cruel savage heartless gory draconian draconic unfeeling unhuman sanguinolent immane felly cruelty bloodiness
2 冷漠无情的
5 枯燥乏味
6 乏味
square routine sad pedestrian blah bland tacky arid uninspired run-of-the-mill prosaic vapid humdrum pallid unexciting undistinguished godforsaken wearisome unexceptional been done that been there that
8 卑劣的
snoep mean little low poor chicken yellow nasty foul villain miserable petty reptile filthy vile lousy wretched despicable cowardly shoddy paltry scaly villainous reptilian scurvy dastardly snide dishonorable contemptible squalid ratty degrading ornery scummy scabby low-down wormy ungenerous scabbed poltroon hilding baseborn meanspirited cowardy currish low-minded
11 卑鄙的
mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble lowlife sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally ungenerous hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded base-mined man rank despicable pitiful rascal lewd measly scruffy scoundrel grubby beastly ignominious degrading dishonour pitiable pimping scabbed mingy hoggish bastardly underhand niddering nidering caitiff suck off
13 没有表情的
15 发呆
blank vague vacuous muzzy faintish vacant abstraction abstracted vacuity petrifaction drowse muzz stupefy petrify bemuse inebriate asleep
16 卑鄙
mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble lowlife sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally ungenerous hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded low basely impudently foully vilely filthily pettily villainy turpitude lowliness baseness vileness abjection scurrility grubbiness sordor deprave base-mined man rank despicable pitiful rascal lewd measly scruffy scoundrel grubby beastly ignominious degrading dishonour pitiable pimping scabbed mingy hoggish bastardly underhand meanly ignobly dirtily niddering nidering dirt meanness smallness unworthiness littleness dirtiness caitiff suck off
17 呆板的
set mechanical wooden expressionless cardboard fixed suburban toneless paint-by-numbers mumsy
18 缺乏感情的
19 没有吸引力的
20 没有生气的
21 枯燥乏味的
22 无情
flinthearted hard bad cruel rocky hardened ruthless dismal stony inhuman heartless merciless steely hard-boiled sledgehammer cold-blooded inexorable aseptic implacable insensible unfeeling roughshod remorseless uncharitable insensate unmerciful fleshed poltroon unpitying insentient hardhearted uncompassionate case-hardened kindless hard-baked ironfisted gloves-off ironhearted cruelhearted harsh bitter hardness callous unkindness insensibility induration callosity harden indurate without remorse sober-blooded tough marble savage relentless unkind hardball pitiless coldhearted mercilessly coldly grimly callously remorselessly heart ruthlessness grimness implacability stoniness insentience brusquerie have a heart of stone stark unsparing relentlessly ruthlessly stonily heartlessly unsparingly pitilessly unfeelingly heartlessness hard-heartedness iron-hearted fish-blooded indurative cold frosty unforgiving thrusting unsympathetic hard-hearted inclement unloving marble-hearted dispiteous dyspathy inhumanity impenetrability ossify
24 淡漠的
25 乏味的
square routine sad pedestrian blah bland tacky arid uninspired run-of-the-mill prosaic vapid humdrum pallid unexciting undistinguished godforsaken wearisome unexceptional
26 无趣的
29 无情的
flinthearted hard bad cruel rocky hardened ruthless dismal stony inhuman heartless merciless steely hard-boiled sledgehammer cold-blooded inexorable aseptic implacable insensible unfeeling roughshod remorseless uncharitable insensate unmerciful fleshed poltroon unpitying insentient hardhearted uncompassionate case-hardened kindless hard-baked ironfisted gloves-off ironhearted cruelhearted harsh bitter callous sober-blooded tough marble savage relentless unkind hardball pitiless coldhearted stark unsparing unforgiving bloodless stonily iron-hearted fish-blooded indurative cold frosty thrusting unsympathetic hard-hearted inclement unloving marble-hearted dispiteous
30 无精神的
31 卑劣
snoep mean little low poor chicken yellow nasty foul villain miserable petty reptile filthy vile lousy wretched despicable cowardly shoddy paltry scaly villainous reptilian scurvy dastardly snide dishonorable contemptible squalid ratty degrading ornery scummy scabby low-down wormy ungenerous scabbed poltroon hilding baseborn meanspirited cowardy currish low-minded rascally meanly villainy meanness turpitude
32 无生气
thewless thowless slumbery slow dead wooden passive faint sterile bland limp glazed inert lackluster inanimate aseptic flabby desiccated bloodless gutless pallid unfired insensate cut-and-dried fireless slumberous insentient unenlivened undynamic unlively uneager thieveless unvital vegetably doldrums drab flatness deadness vapidity cut and dried
33 无生气的
thewless thowless slumbery slow dead wooden passive faint sterile bland limp glazed inert lackluster inanimate aseptic flabby desiccated bloodless gutless pallid unfired insensate cut-and-dried fireless slumberous insentient unenlivened undynamic unlively uneager thieveless unvital cut and dried lifeless arid drab glassy waxen