pleasurelessadj.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiii. f. 182 He hathe alreadye seene the Realme Of Pluto vtter pleasurelesse, and passed Styxis streame.

a1631 R. Bolton Foure Last Things (1632) 227 Satan so fild his heart with a madded and enraged greedinesse after that, most gainelesse and pleasurelesse sinne.

a1667 G. Wither Misc. Wks. (1872–7) II. 33 Suffrings were not pleasureless; Because I knew I underwent thy Rod, Who art as well my Father, as my God.

1719 C. Johnson Masquerade iv. ii. 59 Am I not this Moment sinking into a plain pleasureless Houshold Animal.

1798 J. Fawcett Poems 109 To bid a labour'd blank of grace appear, Superbly pleasureless, and trimly drear!

1809 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3511 If Folly were no easier than Wisdom, being so very much more painful & pleasureless.

1814 in New Brit. Theatre III. 254 He might have become penitent, and deplored the enormity of his pleasureless vices.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxix. 272 He himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance.

1932 Doylestown (Pa.) Daily Intelligencer 10 Dec. 2/2 A pleasureless process at 25 cents a quart.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 July 10 Later, Jim and Eileen drive home for sex so routine as to be almost pleasureless.

1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 35 I wander objectlessly, pleasurelessly about with Vick.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 209 Across the way in the chained playground some large muffled figure creaked alone and pleasurelessly on the pendulum of the swing.