as in blind
lacking the power of sight
his failing eyesight makes him fear that he may be eyeless in old age
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Adjective
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His next book, A Drop of Patience, narrated by a blind jazz musician, was a formal experiment: to write a novel with no visual information.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025 -
Healthy Skepticism Optimism drives startups, but blind optimism can be dangerous.—
Abdo Riani,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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These tiny fossorial ophidians — though not the tiniest (that title belongs to this 4-inch snake from Barbados) — are nearly sightless.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Apr. 2015
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“Eyeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyeless. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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