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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eyeless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All were eyeless for the crows and ravens pluck the succulent pieces first.
▪ As soon as the eyeless figure had jerked and fallen back, his fury had left him.
▪ Clearly, the eyeless mites must have a photoreceptor somewhere.
▪ It'd still be there when they were all dead, grinning at everyone with its horrible eyeless stare.
▪ The sea and the eyeless fish houses and the briny chum dropped quickly away.
▪ These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
▪ They get the drumming engine Of their boots From their hearts, From their eyeless, earless hearts, Their brainless hearts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyeless

Eyeless \Eye"less`\, a. Without eyes; blind. ``Eyeless rage.''
--Shak.

Wiktionary
eyeless

a. 1 Having no eyes (gloss: organs of sight). 2 Having no sight; blind.

WordNet
eyeless
  1. adj. lacking eyes or eyelike features; "eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves"; "an eyeless needle" [ant: eyed]

  2. lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: sightless, unseeing]

Usage examples of "eyeless".

There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past.

The twisted features, eyeless and locked in an endless scream, mocked him from the ashy ground.

It was primal, a thick protein soup, brainless but aware, eyeless but seeing, earless but hearing, without a gut but hungry.

An eyeless white toad burped greasily at him from the top of a deformed skull.

The skulls and chitin headcases of a menagerie glared dead ferocity from its flanks: toothy and agape, flat, eyeless, horned, lamprey-mouthed with cilia-teeth, bone-ridged, shockingly human, intricate.

After they had rambled over the lower part of the building, Alec took Kate up a small winding stair, past a succession of empty doorways like eyeless sockets, leading nowhither because the floors had fallen.

He saw now that it had four legs and two arms, that it was eyeless, and where its face should have been, bony head plates appeared while philia dangled like pink worms from its jaw.

As she approached, Daiya saw the bones next to Sude, the eyeless skull, the bleached ribs, a claw which had once been a hand.

But even worse, he loathed his berserk rage yestermorn when he had seen the half-decayed, eyeless bodies of his good friends lying on the battlefield like refuse.

Their ghastly antlered heads stood proudly upright, their eyeless sockets scouring the land.

He had to go further back, past the scurrying lemur lives and the slimy and raw slug lives, feeling back millions of years to the eyeless, mouthless beginnings of the cell.

Faceless, eyeless, unseeing and unhearing, mouthless and yet provided with the most ghastly of mouths, the baleful algae came again.

At its first touch, the eyeless, mouthless snake, a cable the thickness of her wrist and with no end in sight, seemed to lengthen as if by magic.

Two small openings above the center of the mouth marked the spot where a nose should have been and, to add further to the hideousness of its appearance, it was eyeless, unless bulging protuberances forcing out the skin where the eyes should have been might be called eyes.

I have seen men hang for hours on a cross, eyeless, earless, and scalpless, before the sharp beaks had eaten their way into his vitals.