bloodlessadjective
uk/ˈblʌd.ləs/us/ˈblʌd.ləs/bloodless adjective (NOT VIOLENT)
A bloodless military operation involves no deaths:
The rebel soldiers seized power in a bloodless coup.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- gunfight
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
See more results »
bloodless adjective (PALE)
used to describe a face or skin that is extremely pale:
His face was thin and bloodless.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- drain
- epidermis
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pale
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- wan
- waxen
- wrinkled
See more results »
bloodless adjective (NO EMOTION)
without emotion
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- phlegmatic
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
See more results »