SIGHTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sightless mean? 

• SIGHTLESS (adjective)
  The adjective SIGHTLESS has 1 sense:

1. lacking sight

  Familiarity information: SIGHTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGHTLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking sight

Synonyms:

eyeless; sightless; unseeing

Context example:

blind as an eyeless beggar

Similar:

blind; unsighted (unable to see)

Derivation:

sightlessness (the state of being blind or lacking sight)

 Context examples 

You should care, Janet: if I were what I once was, I would try to make you care—but—a sightless block!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How long he sat there he did not know, until, suddenly, across his sightless vision he saw form a long horizontal line of white.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He raised a sightless face and listened intently as Negore's foot crackled a dead twig.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This nail, he continued, pulling off his hat and turning up his sightless orbs, is one of those wherewith man's salvation was secured.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One eye was disfigured and sightless from a wound, but the other looked from my father to myself with the quickest and shrewdest of expressions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Who is this? Who is this?" he demanded, trying, as it seemed, to see with those sightless eyes—unavailing and distressing attempt!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For forty yards round the portal the ground was black with writhing, screaming figures, who struggled up and hurled themselves down again, tossing this way and that, sightless, scorched, with fire bursting from their tattered clothing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)