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Adjective: bloodless  blúd-lus
  1. Destitute of blood or apparently so
    "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"
    - exsanguine, exsanguinous
     
  2. Free from blood or bloodshed
    "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"
     
  3. Without vigour or zest or energy
    "an insipid and bloodless young man"
     
  4. Devoid of human emotion or feeling
    "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
     
  5. Anaemic looking from illness or emotion
    "tried to speak with bloodless lips"
    - ashen, blanched, livid, white

See also: bloodlessly, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], dead, nonhuman, nonviolent, spiritless, unbloody

Antonym: bloody

Encyclopedia: Bloodless