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bloudless

bloudless is the obsolete form of bloodless.

Meaning of bloodless

Adjective

bloodless (comparative more bloodless, superlative most bloodless)

  1. 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: […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  2. Taking place without loss of blood.
    • a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory
  3. (figuratively) 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 February 8, “No. 1 Rumanian”, in Time

Forms of bloudless

comparativemore bloudless
superlativemost bloudless

Origin of bloudless

From bloud + -less.

Questions about bloudless

What is bloudless the obsolete form of?
Bloudless is the obsolete form of bloodless.

Words near bloudless in the dictionary

  1. bloude
  2. blouded
  3. bloudhound
  4. bloudie
  5. blouding
  6. bloudless
  7. blouds
  8. bloudy
  9. Blough
  10. Bloughs
  11. Blouin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloudless (page history and authors); bloodless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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