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Adjective: bloodless  blúd-lus
  1. Free from blood or bloodshed
    "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup"
     
  2. Lacking blood or appearing to lack blood
    "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold";
    - exsanguine, exsanguinous
     
  3. Without vigour, zest or energy
    "an insipid and bloodless young man"
     
  4. Devoid of human emotion or feeling
    "charts of bloodless economic indicators"
     
  5. Anaemic looking from illness or emotion
    "tried to speak with bloodless lips";
    - ashen, blanched, livid, white

See also: colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], dead, nonhuman, nonviolent, spiritless, unbloody

Antonym: bloody

Encyclopedia: Bloodless