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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unseeing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He turned to me, his eyes open yet unseeing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He found he could not meet Rory's black unseeing stare.
▪ He was leaning against the trunk of the tree, staring with blank unseeing eyes at the ground.
▪ She had stared at him wide-eyed, unseeing, and any desire that he might have felt had died in that instant.
▪ She leaned more heavily against the window and stared unseeing at her park below.
▪ She looked round, unseeing, at all the discarded clothes and bath towels looped on the bed and floor.
▪ She stared ahead through the windscreen with unseeing eyes.
▪ The mouth is drawn down in bitter disgust, the eyes nearly closed, unseeing.
▪ The result is the development of an eye, isolated and unseeing, in the belly of the embryo.
Wiktionary
unseeing

a. 1 blind 2 Not aware of what is visible.

WordNet
unseeing
  1. adj. not consciously observing; "looked through him with blank unseeing eyes" [syn: unobservant]

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

Usage examples of "unseeing".

With Ceis plugged into the little battery amplifier, she sat on the back seat, weaving a spell of unseeing about the three vehicles.

The head was left attached to the hide, and while the meat was lowered into the waiting stone-lined pits, heated by fires, for a full day, the acolytes hung the huge bearskin on poles in front of the cave, where his unseeing eyes could watch the festivities.

Blue smoke from the brake-locked tires billows up around his car, blocking out sight of the on-rushing barrier but not bothering Britt, who is already unseeing through a blind rage.

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

Naldeth was still staring ahead with unseeing eyes but Parrail twisted to try and gain some idea of where they were being taken.

Her face was pale, yellowish, with a clear, transparent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look.

There Akha stood, broad and horrible of brow, its large stone eyes unseeing yet all-seeing, lit from below by flares.

In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.

The grizzled witch doctor rustled his necklaces with his fingers, and his eyes looked beyond Tembu George in a far away, unseeing stare.

I watched with a parched mouth while he put a steel probe into the keyhole and concentrated on feeling his way through the tumblers, his eyes unfocussed and unseeing, all the consciousness in his fingers.

Now once more they were to run the same round of alarms, undergo the love of the place, with perpetual apprehensions of having to leave it: alarms, throbbing suspicions, like those of old travellers through the haunted forest, where whispers have intensity of meaning, and unseeing we are seen, and unaware awaited.

I looked through the shining, quivering sunlight that fell on every side with blank, unseeing eyes, and the bitterest curses against Howard rose to my lips, checked only by the knowledge that I had forgiven him.

Human nature knows millions of these inconsequent little feuds, springing up and flourishing apart from any basis of racial, political, religious or economic causes, as a hint perhaps to crass unseeing altruists that enmity has its place and purpose in the world as well as benevolence.

The grass of fifty Aprils hath waved green Above the spent heart, the Olympian head, The hands crost idly, the shut eyes unseen, Unseeing, the locked lips whose song hath fled.

With an effort, he lifted his gaze from the paralyzing depth of a tunnel and fixed his eyes, at first unseeing, then with gathering fascination, on the distant, looming splendor of the palace.