1
: deficient in or free from blood
2
: not accompanied by loss or shedding of blood
a bloodless victory
3
: lacking in spirit or vitality
4
: lacking in human feeling
bloodless statistics
bloodlessly
adverb
bloodlessness
noun
Examples of bloodless in a Sentence
They took control of the government in a bloodless coup.
Her speeches are dull and bloodless.
a bunch of bloodless numbers and statistics
His face was bloodless with fear.
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But on Monday, Iran responded with a largely symbolic and bloodless strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar.
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But in the strangest and most accomplished of his novels—Car (1972), A Feast of Snakes (1976), and The Knockout Artist (1988), the latter of which was reissued last year by Penguin Classics—what these strivers are after isn’t so material, and their pursuits are anything but slick or bloodless.
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That Rae’s vocals were processed into bloodless oblivion didn’t help.
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Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
But on Monday, Iran responded with a largely symbolic and bloodless strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 24 June 2025
But in the strangest and most accomplished of his novels—Car (1972), A Feast of Snakes (1976), and The Knockout Artist (1988), the latter of which was reissued last year by Penguin Classics—what these strivers are after isn’t so material, and their pursuits are anything but slick or bloodless.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
That Rae’s vocals were processed into bloodless oblivion didn’t help.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodless. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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bloodless
adjective
blood·less
ˈbləd-ləs 
1
: having less blood than normal
2
: done without bloodshed
a bloodless revolution
3
: lacking in spirit or feeling
bloodlessly
adverb
bloodlessness
noun
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