eyeless
adjEtymology 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”).
1
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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
2
Having no sight; blind.
3
Uncommon, Of tools or objects Having no eye: having no hole.
Especially suturing needles
- eyeless needle
- Derived terms
- eyelessly, eyelessness