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viewless

American  
[vyoo-lis] / ˈvju lɪs /

adjective

  1. giving no view.

    a viewless window.

  2. without an opinion or opinions.

  3. Obsolete. that cannot be seen; invisible.


viewless British  
/ ˈvjuːlɪs /

adjective

  1. (of windows, etc) not affording a view

  2. having no opinions

  3. poetic invisible

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of viewless

First recorded in 1595–1605; view + -less

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The first 2 miles consist of a tough, viewless uphill trudge.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2023

The Sylph in viewless ether dwell, In clouds her beauty shading!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

The cord broke and the tent Slipped and the silken roof Lay prone beneath the viewless hoof Of the deliberate firmament.

From The Three Hills And other Poems by Charles Baudelaire

I saw us all caught by something huge and hungry, a viewless, impartial appetite which swallowed us all without examination; which was slowly eating me.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

God Christ—along the weary lands, What lone invisible Calvaries are set, What drooping brows with dews of anguish wet, What faint outspreading of unwilling hands, Bound to a viewless cross with viewless bands.

From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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