| 单词 | bloodless |
| 释义 | bloodless (once / 2647 pages) adj When something is bloodless, it's free of violence. During a bloodless revolution, a regime is overthrown without anyone being killed. A coup or a revolution is sometimes described as bloodless — in these instances, political and revolutionary goals are achieved without any blood being shed or lives being lost. A different meaning of bloodless is "drained of blood" or "pale and white," as your face might look if you saw a ghost. The Old English word was blodleas — figuratively, it meant "powerless." WORD FAMILYbloodless: bloodlessly+/blood: blooded, blooding, bloodless, bloods, bloody/blooded: bloodedest, bloodedly/bloody: bloodied, bloodier, bloodies, bloodiest, bloodily, bloodiness, bloodying, unbloody USAGE EXAMPLESFormer emir of Qatar who was deposed by his son in a bloodless palace coup. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) Obama is hardly as cool and bloodless as advertised, but he will not perform, or even recount, his emotions on command. The New Yorker(Nov 17, 2016) As a rallying cry against economic injustice, a pledge to be “the small-business president,” for example, sounded bloodless. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) 1adj free from blood or bloodshed bloodless surgery a bloodless coup Syn|Ant nonviolent, unbloody achieved without bloodshed bloody having or covered with or accompanied by blood blood-filledcontaining blood bloodstained, gorycovered with blood bloodsuckingdrawing blood from the body of another bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinarymarked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed crimson, red, violentcharacterized by violence or bloodshed homicidal, murderouscharacteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterousaccompanied by bloodshed internecinecharacterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides merciless, unmercifulhaving or showing no mercy 2adj destitute of blood or apparently so "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden Syn exsanguine, exsanguinous dead no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life 3adj anemic looking from illness or emotion tried to speak with bloodless lips Syn ashen, blanched, livid, white colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful 4adj without vigor or zest or energy an insipid and bloodless young man Syn spiritless lacking ardor or vigor or energy 5adj devoid of human emotion or feeling charts of bloodless economic indicators Syn nonhuman not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings |
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