eyeless
- adjective
- /ˈaɪləs/
- And the baby was a baby no longer and not even a cluster of cells or a curled-up, eyeless thing, but just a pregnancy.
- eyeless face
- eyeless head
- eyeless skulls
Straw men are pecked eyeless by fearless birds.
- Straw men are pecked eyeless by fearless birds.
Examples
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Its eyeless gaze was fixed on Perrin.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Like the eyeless bird on the wreath, the angels depressed me.
Fiction book (1996) -
As well, an eyeless creature looms in white fog.
Blog text (17) -
But when he had trekked all about the hill, he found only more white and eyeless dead and endless tracts of forest.
Fiction book (1992) -
They saw the body of their father, laid out on the pier, puffed and eyeless.
Fiction book (2000) -
But so long as the Myrddraal stared at him with its eyeless gaze, it was an effort even to think.
Fiction book (1991) -
Brave Man walked among the corpses, noting familiar faces, eyeless now since the keen ravens went for those first.
Fiction book (1992) -
Splayed out muskrats and coons, eyeless, snoutless, watching me through the holes in their faces, and the deer skulls above, watching.
Fiction book (1995) -
And still more—and now bones—the floor of the place is littered with human bones; eyeless skulls peer up at them from all around.
Fiction book (1996) -
The sound of his voice caused the eyeless head to rotate toward him.
Synonyms
Unable to see because of illness, injury, or from birth
Not able to see, as a person or animal
Not able to see
Antonyms
How Sighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word eyeless comes from the parts eye and -less, where eye means 'eye' and -less means 'without', the same -less you find in homeless. So eyeless literally means 'without eyes' and is used for people or animals that cannot see.