Modifies a noun

• coup: Michael Howard, who attained the position in an almost ethereal bloodless coup, has left the party in rather a mess.

• revolution: The results of the recent bloodless revolution in South Africa are gradually becoming felt.

• victory: Amy Lloyd scored a bloodless victory in the 80m hurdles winning in 13.2 secs.

• surgery: At Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, there are three main proponents of bloodless surgery.

• field: The ideal of a bloodless field can usually be obtained with an elective operation.

• war: In the first bloodless war of the information age, Britain has lost to a deadly first strike. © Copyright Guardian Media Group plc.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: You should now have a relatively bloodless field inside the aneurysm sac.

• almost: Perhaps the war will be an instantaneous, almost bloodless, victory followed by rejoicing in the streets.

• virtually: America was Paine's model, and the victory of the moderates over the radicals in that country had been virtually bloodless.

• curiously: Anita Shreve - All He Ever Wanted Curiously bloodless, given sexual passion is its theme, but reasonably well-written with a cliff-hanging plot.

• fairly: However, the violence committed is often against robots and as a result is fairly bloodless.

• otherwise: Fifty people died here in an otherwise bloodless take-over of power.

Used with adjective complement

• want: Anita Shreve - All He Ever Wanted Curiously bloodless, given sexual passion is its theme, but reasonably well-written with a cliff-hanging plot.