'Bloodless' definitions:
Definition of 'bloodless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden [syn: bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous]
adjective
Free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup" [ant: bloody]
adjective
Without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man"
adjective
Devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
adjective
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" [syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
Definition of 'Bloodless'
From: GCIDE
- Bloodless \Blood"less\, a. [AS. bl[=o]dle['a]s.]
- 1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. [1913 Webster]
- The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. --Froude. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Without spirit or activity. [1913 Webster]
- Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Blood"less*ly}, adv. -- {Blood"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bloodless'
From: GCIDE
- nonhuman \nonhuman\ adj. not human. Opposite of human. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike}; bloodless; dehumanized, unhuman; grotesque, monstrous, unnatural; mechanical] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'bloodless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- anemic,
- anesthetic,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- asthenic,
- at peace,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bled white,
- cadaverous,
- calm,
- characterless,
- chicken,
- chloranemic,
- cold,
- colorless,
- concordant,
- cowardly,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- debilitated,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fallow,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flat,
- floppy,
- ghastly,
- gone,
- gray,
- gutless,
- haggard,
- halcyon,
- hard,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- idyllic,
- imbecile,
- impassible,
- impotent,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- languid,
- languorous,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- livid,
- low-spirited,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- muddy,
- nerveless,
- neutral,
- orderly,
- pacific,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pastoral,
- pasty,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- peacetime,
- pedestrian,
- piping,
- pithless,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- quiet,
- restful,
- rocky,
- rubbery,
- sallow,
- sapless,
- serene,
- sickly,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slow,
- soft,
- solemn,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- strengthless,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tallow-faced,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- toneless,
- tranquil,
- uncolored,
- unhardened,
- unlively,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- untroubled,
- vapid,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waterish,
- watery,
- waxen,
- weak,
- weakly,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wooden