adj
Meaning 1
Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bloodless
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adj
Meaning 2
Taking place without loss of blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
free from blood or bloodshed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- bloodless surgery
- a bloodless coup
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: bloody
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
destitute of blood or apparently so- John Dryden
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
anemic looking from illness or emotion- Mary W. Shelley
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
- lips white with terror
- a face white with rage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
devoid of human emotion or feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- charts of bloodless economic indicators
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
without vigor or zest or energy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an insipid and bloodless young man
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English blodles, from Old English blōdlēas (“bloodless”). Cognate with Dutch bloedeloos (“bloodless”), German blutlos (“bloodless”), Danish blodløs (“bloodless”), Swedish blodlös (“bloodless”), Icelandic blóðlaus (“bloodless”). By surface analysis, blood + -less.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: անարյուն (anaryun) — lacking blood
- Belarusian: бяскро́ўны (bjaskrówny) — lacking blood
- Bengali: রক্তহীন (roktohin) — lacking blood
- Bulgarian: безкръ́вен (bezkrǎ́ven) — lacking blood
- Esperanto: sangomanka — lacking blood
- Finnish: aneeminen — lacking blood
- Georgian: უსისხლო (usisxlo) — lacking blood
- German: blutarm — lacking blood
- German: bleich — lacking blood
- Greek: αναιμικός (anaimikós) — lacking blood
- Ancient Greek: ἄναιμος (ánaimos) — lacking blood
- Ancient Greek: ἀναίμων (anaímōn) — lacking blood
- Icelandic: blóðlaus — lacking blood
- Irish: neamhfholach — lacking blood
- Irish: gan rian fola — lacking blood
- Irish: liathbhán — lacking blood
- Irish: bán san aghaidh — lacking blood
- Italian: esanime — lacking blood
- Northern Kurdish: bêxwîn — lacking blood
- Kyrgyz: кансыз (kansız) — lacking blood
- Latin: exsanguis — lacking blood
- Latin: incruentus — lacking blood
- Lithuanian: bekraujis — lacking blood
- Polish: bezkrwisty — lacking blood
- Russian: бескро́вный (beskróvnyj) — lacking blood
- Spanish: exangüe — lacking blood
- Turkish: kansız — lacking blood
- Ukrainian: безкро́вний (bezkróvnyj) — lacking blood
- Belarusian: бяскро́ўны (bjaskrówny) — taking place without loss of blood
- Bengali: রক্তপাতহীন (roktopatohin) — taking place without loss of blood
- Finnish: veretön — taking place without loss of blood
- Georgian: უსისხლო (usisxlo) — taking place without loss of blood
- German: unblutig — taking place without loss of blood
- Greek: αναίμακτος (anaímaktos) — taking place without loss of blood
- Irish: gan mharú — taking place without loss of blood
- Irish: gan foréigean — taking place without loss of blood
- Japanese: 無血 (muketsu) — taking place without loss of blood
- Latin: incruentus — taking place without loss of blood
- Manx: gyn lhottey — taking place without loss of blood
- Norwegian Bokmål: ublodig — taking place without loss of blood
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ublodig — taking place without loss of blood
- Polish: bezkrwawy — taking place without loss of blood
- Portuguese: incruento — taking place without loss of blood
- Russian: бескро́вный (beskróvnyj) — taking place without loss of blood
- Spanish: incruento — taking place without loss of blood
- Spanish: sin efusión de sangre — taking place without loss of blood
- Ukrainian: безкро́вний (bezkróvnyj) — taking place without loss of blood
- German: blutleer — lacking emotion or vivacity
- Greek: αναιμικός (anaimikós) — lacking emotion or vivacity
- Polish: bezkrwisty — lacking emotion or vivacity
- Russian: безжи́зненный (bezžíznennyj) — lacking emotion or vivacity
- Spanish: exánime — lacking emotion or vivacity
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