Definitions for: Bloodless


[adj] destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden
[adj] free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"
[adj] ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
[adj] devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
[adj] without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipit and bloodless young man"



Webster (1913) Definition: Blood"less, a. [AS. bl?dle['a]s.]
1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless
cheeks; lifeless; dead.

The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. --Dryden.

2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a
bloodless victory. --Froude.

3. Without spirit or activity.

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! --Shak.
-- Blood"less*ly, adv. -- Blood"less*ness, n.

Synonyms: ashen, blanched, colorless, colourless, dead, exsanguine, exsanguinous, livid, nonhuman, nonviolent, spiritless, unbloodied, unbloody, white

Antonyms: bloody

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