eyeless
- adjective
- /ˈaɪləs/
- He looks at the rabbit skin, with its eyeless sockets.
- eyeless fish
- eyeless shrimp
Examples
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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.
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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
How Sighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.