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Definition: Bloodless |
BloodlessAdjective1. Destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden. 2. Free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup". 3. Without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipit and bloodless young man". 4. Devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators". 5. Ash-colored or 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloodless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: BloodlessSynonyms: ashen (adj), blanched (adj), exsanguine (adj), exsanguinous (adj), livid (adj), white (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bloody (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Innocence | Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless). |
Peace | Adjective: pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bloodless |
| English words defined with "bloodless": ashen ♦ blanched, bloodlessly ♦ Exanguious, exsanguine, exsanguinous ♦ livid ♦ white, without bloodshed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bloodless": Cervix Incompetence, Controversy ♦ Laser Surgery. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bloodless": Exanguious. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're one to talk, you bloodless, money-grabbing freak (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bloodless Vampire (1965) | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The fingers hung on strings against her palm, and the torn flesh was white and bloodless. |
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Economic History | Burundi | Jean-Baptiste Bagaza took power in a bloodless coup. (references) |
Somalia | Mohamed Siad Barre, seized power in a bloodless coup. (references) | |
Thailand | Three years later, yet another bloodless coup ended his term. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | In 1997, Nawaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister for a second time with a substantial majority, but on October 12, 1999, his government was removed in a bloodless military coup. (references) |
Pakistan | In October 1999, the elected civilian Government of former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was overthrown in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief of Staff General Pervez Musharraf. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire showed remarkable political stability from its independence from France in 1960 until 1999, when soldiers ousted the democratically elected government in a bloodless coup d'etat. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burundi | The 1992 Constitution and 1994 Convention of Government were suspended by the Buyoya military regime that assumed power on July 25, 1996, in a bloodless coup. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. In controversy with the facile tongue -- That bloodless warfare of the old and young -- So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal wound. You ask me how this miracle is done? Adopt his own opinions, one by one, And taunt him to refute them; in his wrath He'll sweep them pitilessly from his path. Advance then gently all you wish to prove, Each proposition prefaced with, "As you've So well remarked," or, "As you wisely say, And I cannot dispute," or, "By the way, This view of it which, better far expressed, Runs through your argument." Then leave the rest To him, secure that he'll perform his trust And prove your views intelligent and just. Conmore Apel Brune |
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| "Bloodless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bloodless" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bloodless": ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen ♦ bloodless Revolution ♦ bloodless victory. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloodless surgery | 21 |
bloodless medicine | 13 |
ambition bloodless | 4 |
the bloodless revolution | 2 |
bloodless england revolution | 2 |
bloodless | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "bloodless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zbetë (faint, lurid, mealy, sallow, wan, watery, white), i pagjak (anemic, unbloody), i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاقد الدم, تعوزه الحيوية (inanimation, lackadaisical), أبيض بدون اراقة دماء, شاحب (colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), безкръвен (unbloody), блед (colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, thin, wan, washy, watery). (various references) | |
Czech | bledý (ghastly, pale, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sickly, wan), bezkrevný, nekrvavý, fádní (drab, dreary, dull, featureless, flat, Gray, grey, humdrum, jejune, tame, tasteless, tiresome), chladný (cold, cool). (various references) | |
Danish | Broedel's linie (Broedel bloodless line), bloodless artery syndrome (bloodless artery syndrome), medicinsk adrenalektomi (bloodless adrenalectomy), ikke-operativ fjernelse af et fremmedlegeme (bloodless extraction of a foreign body). (various references) | |
Dutch | onbloedig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sensanga. (various references) | |
Finnish | veretön (anemic, pale, pallid). (various references) | |
French | sans sang, pâle, fatigué (bleary), exsangue, anémié. (various references) | |
German | blutlos. (various references) | |
Greek | αναιμικίσ, αναίμακτοσ, αναίμακτος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללא שפיכת דמים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vértelen (unbloody), kedélytelen (pokey). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanpa pertumpahan darah. (various references) | |
Italian | esangue (wan), anemico (anaemic, anemic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無血 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むけつ (flawlessness). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn fuill. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodlessblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem sangue. (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrã vlagã (amort, flabby, flat, inert, languid, languidly, limp, limply). (various references) | |
Russian | бескровный (unbloody). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez krvoprolića, beskrvan (unbloody). (various references) | |
Spanish | que tiene sangre de horchata, insensible (unfeeling), incruento, exangüe (exsanguine), anémico (anaemic, anemic). (various references) | |
Swedish | blodlös. (various references) | |
Thai | ไร้เลือด. (various references) | |
Turkish | solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan), kansız (anaemic, anemic), kan dökmeden yapılan, hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, soulless, torpid), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gansyz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | безчуттєвий, безкровний (exsanguine, unbloody), безжиттєвий (lifeless, uninformed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô tình (casual, heartless, indeliberate, promiscuous, unconcerned, unsympathetic, untouched), uể oải (cup, dull, languid, languishing, slack, slothful), nhẫn tâm không có sinh khí, lờ phờ (logy, sluggish), không có máu; tái nhợt không đổ máu lạnh lùng. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incruentatus, incruentatus, incruentus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloodless": bloodlessly, bloodlessness, bloodlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bloodless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bloodlet. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloodless" (pronounced blu"dlus) |
| 4 | -d l u s | boundless, childless, cloudless, cordless, endless, godless, groundless, headless, irregardless, landless, mindless, needless, regardless, windlass, wordless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, classless, clueless, Colas, colorless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, graceless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windowless, wireless, witless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-l-o-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: boodles. | |
-3 letters: bloods, bolled, boodle, bossed, dossel, loosed, looses, losels, oboles, oodles, soloed. | |
-4 letters: bells, bless, blood, bodes, bolds, boles, bolls, bolos, booed, dells, doles, dolls, doses, lobed, lobes, lobos, lodes, loess, looed, loose, losel, loses, oboes, obole, obols, oleos, sells, sleds, slobs, sloes, soldo, soled, soles, solos. | |
-5 letters: beds, bell, bels, bled, bode. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-l-o-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: bloodlessly. | |
+4 letters: bloodlessness. | |
+5 letters: colorblindness. | |
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