Bloodless

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
2. Taking place without loss of blood.
3. (figurative) Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.

Example Sentences

My bloodleſſe bodie waxeth chill and colde, And with my blood my life ſlides through my wound, My ſoule begins to take her flight to hell, And ſummones all my ſences to depart: […]

Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads, Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here: Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I, Even like a stony image, cold and numb.

The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory

Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.

Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste.

Many of them are leaving us — the words. Gone into hiding […] Now they lurk, uncaged, behind other words, behind trending, brittle, bloodless little wokeisms […]

There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.

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• more bloodless
• most bloodless
• bloodlesse
• bloudless

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