ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sightless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Sightless is an adjective meaning Without sight; blind; unseeing.

Meaning

Without sight; blind; unseeing.

More Meanings

  1. Synonym of invisible.

Example Sentences

The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.
And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.
In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.

Synonyms for sightless

Depending on context, synonyms include inapparent, uneyeable, viewless, disapparent, invis, invisible.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eyeless, unseeing, blind, unsighted, nonsighted, gazeless.

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