Meaning of BLOODLESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'bludlis
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | ashen, blanched, colorless, colourless, dead, exsanguine, exsanguinous, livid, nonhuman, nonviolent, spiritless, unbloodied, unbloody, white |
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| | Antonyms: | | bloody | | |
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| | 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.
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