sightless

adjective

ˈsīt-ləs How to pronounce sightless (audio)
Definition of sightlessnext
as in blind
lacking the power of sight bats are often thought to be completely sightless, but this is not really true

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Recent Examples of sightless 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, 2 Apr. 2015 That makes for quick, sightless control of both radio volume and climate temperature. — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024 Our new unlucky heroine is terminally ill writer Sam (Lupita Nyong’o), out of the hospital on a day trip to the city when sightless monsters begin falling from the sky. — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 June 2024

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