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eyeless

eyeless

1 7.0
Not having eyes or openings like the hole in a needle
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪləs/
translation icon : sin ojos
  • He looks at the rabbit skin, with its eyeless sockets.
  • eyeless fish
  • eyeless shrimp

Examples

  • Up, down, in hideous spirals, the beast insinuated itself through the root-caves, through the stacked white branches, which tumbled and rattled away from its thrusting, eyeless head.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The museum displayed a collection of eyeless dolls, each telling a unique story of craftsmanship.

  • There were three each of the electric fish and the eyeless fish swimming in the clear bags.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • If it's just a story about Jedi or eyeless baby Ewoks or something else.

    Blog text (22)
  • In the water swim eyeless catfish in geometric patterns.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Another kind of trilobite, known as Cryptolithus, was eyeless, but a fringe on its head may have allowed it to determine the direction of currents.

    Academic text (1992)
  • A thick, eyeless eel slithered past, teeth bright in the xenon lamp.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • He designed the cave to house an oversized aquarium filled with a species of eyeless fish and other fish, he said, with lights built into their heads.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And unfertile land, wasteland, marshland, or rocky upland, was eyeless, windowless.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • In the dark depths of the cave, they discovered an eyeless fish that had adapted to its environment.

Antonyms

271 4.3

Having eyes or spots that look like eyes, often in a pattern

1.3

A person who can see

How Sighted

sighted
1.3
blind
520 1.0
eyeless
1 7.0

Surface Forms

eyeless positive

Morphology

eyeless = eye (transparent) = eye + less

Still a straightforward formation 'eye' + '-less'; even if used to mean 'lacking eye-like openings', the morphological composition remains directly interpretable.

Etymology

The word eyeless comes from the parts eye and -less, where eye means 'eye' and -less means 'without', so it literally says 'without an eye'. That is why we can call a needle with no hole an 'eyeless' needle or a statue an eyeless face when it has no eye-like opening.