eyeless
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 7
Definition of eyeless
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Having no eyes (organs of sight).
“Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.”
“I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Having no eyes (organs of sight).
“Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.”
“I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.”
- (not-comparable)Having no sight; blind.
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(not-comparable, uncommon)Having no eye: having no hole.
“eyeless needle”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).
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