sightless

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sightless

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  1. not comparable Without sight; blind; unseeing. And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.
  2. not comparable Synonym of invisible. In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.

    Similar: inapparent, uneyeable, viewless, disapparent, inconspicuous, invis, invisible, inviso, nondisplayed, nonvisible, out of sight, sightless

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@misc{sightless_2026,
  title = {sightless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sightless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}