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eyeless

[ ahy-lis ]

adjective

  1. lacking eyes:

    eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves.

  2. lacking sight; blind.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eyeless1

First recorded in 1560–70; eye + less

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Example Sentences

Cæcus, however, being Latin for blind, the allusion is no doubt to the fact that this wholly subterranean species is eyeless.

As the eye of day had closed and the cannibal slept, Eyeless-Needle, from under the bed, pricked him.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

All were like the one who held them, thick long worm bodies with projecting tentacles and with black eyeless faces.

Then the upreared eyeless thing began to move his long tentacles.

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