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sightless
CIDE DICTIONARY
sightless, a.
- Wanting sight; without sight; blind. [1913 Webster]"Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar." [1913 Webster]
- That can not be seen; invisible. [1913 Webster]"The sightless couriers of the air." [1913 Webster]
- Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sightless, adj.
1 blind.
2 poet. invisible.
1 blind.
2 poet. invisible.
Derivative
sightlessly adv. sightlessness n.
THESAURUS
sightless
ableptical, amaurotic, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, benighted, bereft of light, blind, camouflaged, color-blind, concealed, dark, dim-sighted, disguised, eyeless, hemeralopic, hidden, imperceptible, in darkness, indiscernible, insensible, invisible, latent, mind-blind, nyctalopic, out of sight, rayless, secret, spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, submerged, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undiscernible, undiscerning, unenlightened, unnoticed, unobserved, unobserving, unperceivable, unperceived, unperceiving, unrealized, unseeable, unseeing, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, viewless, visionlessROGET THESAURUS
sightless
Ugliness
N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.Blindness
N blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, ablepsia, prestriction, dim-sightedness, Braille, Braille-type, guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph, teichopsia, blind, eyeless, sightless, visionless, dark, stone-blind, sand- blind, stark-blind, undiscerning, dimsighted, blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl, wall-eyed, blinded, blindly, blindfold, blindfolded, darkly, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon.Invisibility
N invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility, indistinctness, mystery, delitescence, concealment, latency, invisible, imperceptible, undiscernible, indiscernible, unapparent, non-apparent, out of sight, not in sight, a perte de vue, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, viewless, sightless, inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unseen &c (see), covert, eclipsed, under an eclipse, dim, mysterious, dark, obscure, confused, indistinct, indistinguishable, shadowy, indefinite, undefined, ill- defined, ill-marked, blurred, fuzzy, out of focus, misty, delitescent, hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed), full many a flower is born to blush unseen.For further exploring for "sightless" in Webster Dictionary Online