Antonyms of adj bloodless

5 senses of bloodless

Sense 1
bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous -- (destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden)

INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive, live -- (possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary")

Sense 2
bloodless (vs. bloody) -- (free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup")

bloody (vs. bloodless) -- (having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight")
        => blood-filled -- (containing blood; "the blood-filled centers of arteries and veins")
        => bloodstained, gory -- (covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger")
        => bloodsucking -- (drawing blood from the body of another; "a plague of bloodsucking insects")
        => bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary -- (marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson)
        => crimson, red, violent -- (characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode)
        => homicidal, murderous -- (characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs")
        => gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly -- (accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war")
        => internecine -- (characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war")

Sense 3
bloodless -- (without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man")

INDIRECT (VIA spiritless) -> spirited -- (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Sense 4
bloodless -- (devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators")

INDIRECT (VIA nonhuman) -> human -- (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty")

Sense 5
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white -- (anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage")

INDIRECT (VIA colorless) -> colorful, colourful -- (having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves")

Similarity of adj bloodless

5 senses of bloodless

Sense 1
bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous -- (destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden)
       => dead (vs. alive) -- (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin")

Sense 2
bloodless (vs. bloody) -- (free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a bloodless coup")
       => nonviolent, unbloody -- (achieved without bloodshed; "an unbloody transfer of power")

Sense 3
bloodless -- (without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless young man")
       => spiritless (vs. spirited) -- (lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism")

Sense 4
bloodless -- (devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless economic indicators")
       => nonhuman (vs. human) -- (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings; "nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees")

Sense 5
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white -- (anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage")
       => colorless (vs. colorful), colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)

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