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

Walter and the other haints drift into the room, their eyeless faces watching what’s becoming of their mistress.

From Literature

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

Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.

From New York Times

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

From Seattle Times

Appropriately, Anophthalmus hitleri, or “eyeless Hitler,” is a significant predator that Doug Yanega, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, said is probably near the top of the micro-animal food chain and “eats anything smaller and weaker than it.”

From New York Times