Associations to the word «Bloodless»

Wiktionary

BLOODLESS, adjective. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
BLOODLESS, adjective. Taking place without loss of blood.
BLOODLESS, adjective. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.

Dictionary definition

BLOODLESS, adjective. Destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden.
BLOODLESS, adjective. Free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup".
BLOODLESS, adjective. Without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man".
BLOODLESS, adjective. Devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators".
BLOODLESS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats