bloodless adjective3 •Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.My bloodlesse bodie waxeth chill and colde, And with my blood my life slides through my wound, My soule begins to take her flight to hell, And summones all my sences to depart: […] — 1587 •Taking place without loss of blood.Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless. — 1892 •(figurative) Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. — 1937 formsmore bloodless · most bloodless