eyeless

[ ahy-lis ]

adjective

1. lacking eyes:

   eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves.

2. lacking sight; blind.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eyeless¹

First recorded in 1560–70; eye + less

Example Sentences

Known to the First Nations peoples in the Western Desert of Australia as the kakarratul, it is eyeless and has shaggy golden fur.

From New York Times

The device, which looks like a small table lamp, has an eyeless, mouthless head that lights up and swivels.

From Washington Times

Except these mussels are eyeless, brainless, little brown creatures that few people have ever heard of.

From Scientific American

Three years later, an Austrian amateur entomologist named a brown, eyeless beetle from Slovenian caves Anophthalmus hitleri because he admired Hitler.

From Science Magazine

Then the conversation turned to the unfortunate plight of “the eyeless.”

From New York Times