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eyeless

eyeless

2 6.6
Not able to see or not having eyes
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪləs/
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  • 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.

Examples

  • 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

blind
vseyeless
520 1.0

Unable to see because of illness, injury, or from birth

also covers missing visual organs or non-medical lack of ability to see
sightless
vseyeless
5 5.0

Not able to see, as a person or animal

includes absence of visual organs as well as lacking the ability to see
unseeing
vseyeless
7.0

Not able to see

also covers missing visual organs, not only inability to perceive visually

Antonyms

1.3

A person who can see

How Sighted

sighted
1.3
blind
520 1.0
eyeless
2 6.6

Surface Forms

eyeless positive

Morphology

eyeless = eye (transparent) = eye + less

Formed by the noun 'eye' + productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning 'lacking eyes' is directly derived.

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.