sightless

[ sahyt-lis ]

/ ˈsaɪt lɪs /

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adjective

unable to see; blind.

invisible.

RELATED WORDS

eyeless, unseeing, visionless

Nearby words

Origin of sightless

1200–50; Middle English. See sight, -less

Related formssight·less·ly, adverbsight·less·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for sightless

The Daily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Artur Zmijewski presents the work of sightless painters as futile, and necessary.
Blind Faith in Art|Blake Gopnik|June 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
For even now his son Polyphemus stumbles a bruised and sightless way among his native hills.
The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
All the fluids of the eye escaped leaving it sightless and shrunken, and so it remained ever after.
Revolutionary Reader|Sophie Lee Foster
Shut lids of sightless indifference seemed to greet the wanderer from the curtained windows.
The Return|Walter de la Mare

How could she ever answer those blind eyes if they questioned her with their calm, sightless stare?
Sunlight Patch|Credo Fitch Harris
But Father Denfili raised his sightless eyes as if he sought to focus them upon the group before him.
The City and the World and Other Stories|Francis Clement Kelley

British Dictionary definitions for sightless

sightless

/ (ˈsaɪtlɪs) /

adjective

blind

invisible

Derived Formssightlessly, adverbsightlessness, noun

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Word Origin and History for sightless

sightless

adj.

late 13c., from sight (n.) + -less. Related: Sightlessly; sightlessness.