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View synonyms for sightless

sightless

[ sahyt-lis ]

adjective

  1. unable to see; blind.


sightless

/ ˈsaɪtlɪs /

adjective

  1. blind
  2. invisible
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsightlessness, noun
  • ˈsightlessly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • sightless·ly adverb
  • sightless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sightless1

1200–50; Middle English. See sight, -less
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Example Sentences

The Daily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Artur Zmijewski presents the work of sightless painters as futile, and necessary.

The shingled old house offered blank windows to the road, like so many sightless eyes.

Her eyes, the soft gray of a summer rain cloud—no one would have guessed them sightless.

He watched her find her way about with the uncanny certainty of the sightless, at which he never ceased to marvel.

He endured without repining the bent back, the sightless eyes, and the creaking joints incident to over-maturity.

The other was sightless but had a half-closed leer that seemed to express discreet visual powers.

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