Meaning & use

soulless

adjective·Academic

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Lacking warmth, feeling, or character; mechanical and impersonal.

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The office building's gray, soulless design made employees feel disconnected.

Critics called the remake a soulless copy of the original film.

A note on using this word

Almost always used figuratively to criticize places, art, or systems that feel emotionally empty, rather than in any literal religious sense.

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