bloodless (redirected from bloodlessness)

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.

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bloodless·ly adv.

bloodless·ness n.

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bloodless

Adjective

1. without blood: bloodless surgery

2. conducted without violence: a bloodless coup

3. anaemic-looking; pale

4. lacking vitality; lifeless: the bloodless ambience of supermarkets

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bloodless - destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden exsanguine, exsanguinous 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" ashen, blanched, livid, white colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful

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bloodless

adjective pale, white, wan, sickly, pasty, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashen, chalky, sallow, ashy, like death warmed up (informal)

Translations

bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj (= pale) → exangüe; [revolt etc] → sin derramamiento de sangre, incruento

bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj [victory] → sans effusion de sang (= pale); anémié(e)

bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj (victory) → unblutig;

(pale) → blutleer

bloodless [ˈblʌdlɪs] adj (= pale) → smorto/a, esangue; [coup] → senza spargimento di sangue