Antonyms of adj blood-and-guts

1 sense of blood-and-guts

Sense 1
blood-and-guts -- (marked by great zeal or violence; "real blood-and-guts fiction"; "blood-and-guts football")

INDIRECT (VIA intense) -> mild -- (moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism")

Similarity of adj blood-and-guts

1 sense of blood-and-guts

Sense 1
blood-and-guts -- (marked by great zeal or violence; "real blood-and-guts fiction"; "blood-and-guts football")
       => intense (vs. mild) -- (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense")

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