Soulless means without warmth or human feeling. A soulless building, soulless work, soulless corporate.
It is a criticism of atmosphere: a soulless place is well-made and dead, which is why it attaches so often to new offices, chain hotels and business parks. Of work it means dull and meaningless. It is one of the few insults that says nothing is wrong except that nothing is right. Note that the compound is Old English and unchanged.
1adjectivesoullessWithout warmth or human feeling.
“The new shopping centre is clean and modern but completely soulless.”
soulless is a quality of lifelessness.
Middle English soulelez is soul plus -less, and Old English had sawolleas built the same way. Soul itself has no certain origin beyond Germanic.
Middle English
soulelez
English, today
soulless
From Middle English soulelez; equivalent to soul + less. Compare Old English sāwollēas; the Middle English word likely is a re-formation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA