PLEASURELESS Synonyms: 146 Similar and Opposite Words

pleasureless

adjective

Definition of pleasureless

as in dullish

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Recent Examples of pleasureless Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession. — Washington Post, 1 July 2019 But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme. — Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleasureless

Adjective

But Koreeda dawdles over all that without ever finding much dramatic nuance, making for a dullish midsection.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026

Definition of dullish

Adjective

In addition to filling in Balaban’s gaps with a tedious litany of mathematical steps, the agents also made some genuine innovations.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Running the same prompt through ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude one at a time is tedious.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of tedious

Adjective

Japanese denim makers curate for customers eager to stand out from the crowd, and that has taken on a whole new meaning in the era of monotonous algorithmic recommendations and AI slop.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
His style, reminiscent of Nick Cave, is incantatory, and the result is that the not-especially-melodic songs tend to bleed into each other with a sameness that ultimately proves monotonous.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monotonous

Adjective

While the house is bursting with artwork that would make most museum curators envious, Herman’s home is surprisingly humble, built on a tight budget from prosaic materials.

— Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Trump’s extravagant welcome gesture will almost certainly be matched by prosaic summit outcomes.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of prosaic

Adjective

The pre-selection debates about three- or four-loss SEC squads and some team no one actually watches will prove incredibly tiresome, too.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Nearly all its arrangements hew to a standard radio-pop format, and in the record’s back half this lack of imagination becomes tiresome.

— Enzo Escober, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tiresome

Adjective

The actual reason the Dodgers lost, that the postseason in baseball is little more than a coin flip and small sample sizes flatten out any talent advantage, is boring and uninteresting.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The city is flooded with dull and uninteresting structures clad in the material.

— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of uninteresting

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