Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unable to see with the eyes; blind.
- adjective Invisible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking sight; blind.
- Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly.
- Not appearing to sight; invisible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
- adjective obsolete That can not be seen; invisible.
- adjective rare Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
sight ;blind .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking sight
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Examples
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Who is it that so wisely, delicately and beautifully arranges and transforms the ugly -- that is, the sightless, formless substance of the earth into flowers?
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Alara raised one hand, and pointed upwards; the girl looked up involuntarily, then dropped her gaze to Alara's "sightless" eyes.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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After the war, everything was different, Vienna no less than my sightless self.
The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011
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One of them was the sightless woman whose tears till now had never ceased.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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Several pellets were lodged in his eyes, leaving him sightless.
PHOTOS: Blind Orangutan Gives Birth To Adorable Twins AP/The Huffington Post 2011
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That's the scenario faced by triffid-expert Bill Masen, who finds himself a sighted man in a sightless nation.
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There was Symeon Star-Eyes, true, but he had years of experience fighting sightless.
Suvudu Cage Matches, Round Two grrm 2010
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Ever the woman whose sightless eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love-cry, ever the dancers of love danced in the warm night, and ever the calabashes went around till in all their brains were maggots crawling of memory and desire.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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The logic-defying atmosphere of Bosch receded from his art, and although he continued to explore themes of vice and folly, laughter and delight, he increasingly presented these as affairs of flesh-and-blood people in recognizable surroundings, as in "The Blind Leading the Blind" 1568, whose sightless wanderers pitiably tumble one by one into a ditch.
Earthy Grandeur Jonathan Lopez 2011
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The kits came with sightless BB guns, safety glasses and 4-inch aluminum disk targets.
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