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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sightless \Sight"less\, a.
     1. Lacking sight; without sight; blind.
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              Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. --Pope.
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     2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]
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              The sightless couriers of the air.    --Shak.
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     3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as,
        sightless stains. [R.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Sight"less*ly}, adv.-
        {Sight"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sightless
       adj : lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: {eyeless},
              {unseeing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, visionless
  
  

















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