eyeless

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Definition of eyeless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (not-comparable)Having no sight; blind.
  3. (not-comparable, uncommon)Having no eye: having no hole.
    “eyeless needle”

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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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