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BLOODLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destitute of blood or apparently so
Example:
the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold
Synonyms:
bloodless; exsanguine; exsanguinous
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Free from blood or bloodshed
Example:
a bloodless coup
Classified under:
Similar:
nonviolent; unbloody (achieved without bloodshed)
Antonym:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Anemic looking from illness or emotion
Example:
a face white with rage
Synonyms:
ashen; blanched; bloodless; livid; white
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Devoid of human emotion or feeling
Example:
charts of bloodless economic indicators
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonhuman (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Without vigor or zest or energy
Example:
an insipid and bloodless young man
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
spiritless (lacking ardor or vigor or energy)
Context examples:
That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew up before the lower features a sable veil, a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's—a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
