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bloodless

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blood·less  (bldls)
adj.
1. Deficient in or lacking blood.
2. Pale and anemic in color: smiled with bloodless lips.
3. Achieved without bloodshed: a bloodless coup.
4. Lacking vivacity or spirit: a long, bloodless speech.
5. Devoid of human emotion or feeling: charts of bloodless economic indicators.

bloodless·ly adv.
bloodless·ness n.

bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs]
adj
1. without blood
2. conducted without violence (esp in the phrase bloodless revolution)
3. anaemic-looking; pale
4. lacking vitality; lifeless
5. lacking in emotion; cold; unfeeling
bloodlessly  adv
bloodlessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.bloodless - destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden
dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
2.bloodless - free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"
bloody - having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
3.bloodless - without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man"
spiritless - lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism"
4.bloodless - devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
nonhuman - not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings; "nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees"
5.bloodless - 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"
colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful

bloodless
adjective
1. non-violent, friendly, peaceful, harmonious, amicable, without hostility, free from strife The campaign would be short and bloodless.
2. pale, white, wan, sickly, pasty, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashen, chalky, sallow, ashy, like death warmed up (informal) Her face was grey and bloodless.
Translations
bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] ADJ
1. (= pale) (gen) → pálido; (due to blood loss) → exangüe
her face was bloodlesssu rostro no tenía colorsu rostro estaba pálido; (due to blood loss) → su rostro estaba exangüe
her lips were bloodlesssus labios apenas tenían color or eran casi blancos; (due to accident, death) → sus labios estaban exangües
2. (= without bloodshed) [revolution, coup] → incruento, sin derramamiento de sangre
3. (= characterless) [film, novel, style] → soso, anodino; [person] → sin sangre en las venas, con sangre de horchata
bloodless [ˈblʌdləs] adj
[victory, coup] → sans effusion de sang
[face, skin] (= pale) → pâle, blême
bloodless
adj (rare, = without blood) → blutlos; (= without bloodshed) victory, coupunblutig; (= pallid)blutleer, bleich
bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj (pale) → smorto/a, esangue; (coup) → senza spargimento di sangue
bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj (pale) → smorto/a, esangue; (coup) → senza spargimento di sangue


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Our companion patted her thin, work-worn hand, and murmured some few words of kindly womanly comfort which brought the color back into the others bloodless cheeks.
Blood they would have from thee in all innocence; blood their bloodless souls crave for--and they sting, therefore, in all innocence.
In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, the whole world.
 
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