bloodless
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bloodless
adj 1: destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless
carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden [syn:
{bloodless}, {exsanguine}, {exsanguinous}]
2: free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a
bloodless coup" [ant: {bloody}]
3: without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless
young man"
4: devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless
economic indicators"
5: 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" [syn: {ashen}, {blanched},
{bloodless}, {livid}, {white}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bloodless \Blood"less\, a. [AS. bl[=o]dle['a]s.]
1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless
cheeks; lifeless; dead.
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The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. --Dryden.
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2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a
bloodless victory. --Froude.
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3. Without spirit or activity.
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Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- {Blood"less*ly}, adv. --
{Blood"less*ness}, n.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodless":
achromatic, achromic, anemic, anesthetic, arid, ashen, ashy,
asthenic, at peace, barren, blah, blank, bled white, cadaverous,
calm, characterless, chicken, chloranemic, cold, colorless,
concordant, cowardly, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated,
dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
drooping, droopy, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine,
empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade,
faded, faint, faintish, fallow, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat,
floppy, ghastly, gone, gray, gutless, haggard, halcyon, hard,
heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic, idyllic, imbecile,
impassible, impotent, inane, inexcitable, insensate, insensitive,
insipid, jejune, lackluster, languid, languorous, leaden, lifeless,
limber, limp, listless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless,
lustless, marrowless, mat, mealy, muddy, nerveless, neutral,
orderly, pacific, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid,
pastoral, pasty, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, pedestrian,
piping, pithless, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped,
powerless, quiet, restful, rocky, rubbery, sallow, sapless, serene,
sickly, sinewless, slack, slow, soft, solemn, spineless,
spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strengthless, stuffy,
superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, toneless, tranquil,
uncolored, unhardened, unlively, unnerved, unstrung, untroubled,
vapid, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, weakly,
whey-faced, white, wooden
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