Word Meanings - SIGHTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.

Additional info about word: SIGHTLESS

1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak. -- Sight"less*ly, adv.- Sight"less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIGHTLESS)

• Blind
• Sightless
• unseeing
• eyeless
• depraved
• undiscerning
• ignorant
• prejudiced
• uninformed
• unconscious
• unaware

Related words: (words related to SIGHTLESS)

• UNAWARE
  Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive. Swift.
• PREJUDICATIVE
  Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. Dr. H. More.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• PREJUDICAL
  Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
• UNSEEM
  Not to seem. Shak.
• PREJUDICATE
  1. Formed before due examination. "Ignorance and prejudicate opinions." Jer. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.
• BLINDNESS
  State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
• BLIND; BLINDE
  See BLENDE
• BLINDFISH
  A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• PREJUDICATION
  1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a
• DEPRAVITY
  The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.
• IGNORANTLY
  In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.
• PREJUDICANT
  Influenced by prejudice; biased. " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.
• IGNORANTIST
  One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
• UNSEEN
  1. Not seen or discovered. 2. Unskilled; inexperienced. Clarendon.
• UNSEEMING
  Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.
• DEPRAVINGLY
  In a depraving manner.
• UNSEEL
  To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. B. Jonson.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• UNBLINDFOLD
  To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.