"sightless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: sight + -less Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sight|less}} sight + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sightless (not comparable)
  1. Without sight; blind; unseeing. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-sightless-en-adj-je5EVUp6
  2. Synonym of invisible Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Vision Synonyms: invisible [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-sightless-en-adj-mpeWuzE7 Disambiguation of Vision: 15 85 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -less Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 92 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -less: 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sightlessly, sightlessness

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