bloodless

Etymology

From Middle English blodles, from Old English blōdlēas (“bloodless”), equivalent to blood + -less. Cognate with Dutch bloedeloos (“bloodless”), German blutlos (“bloodless”), Danish blodløs (“bloodless”), Swedish blodlös (“bloodless”), Icelandic blóðlaus (“bloodless”).

adj

1. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
   The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume. 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2
2. Taking place without loss of blood.
   a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory
   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, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129
3. 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. 8 February 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian”, in Time