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EYELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyeless mean? 

EYELESS (adjective)
  The adjective EYELESS has 2 senses:

1. lacking eyes or eyelike featuresplay

2. lacking sightplay

  Familiarity information: EYELESS used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EYELESS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking eyes or eyelike features

Context example:

an eyeless needle

Antonym:

eyed (having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking sight

Synonyms:

eyeless; sightless; unseeing

Context example:

blind as an eyeless beggar

Similar:

blind; unsighted (unable to see)

Derivation:

eyelessness (blindness due to loss of the eyes)


 Context examples 


I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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