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
That makes for quick, sightless control of both radio volume and climate temperature.
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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
Despite the chaos and confusion, it’s quickly established that the extraterrestrial predators are sightless and respond only to noise.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
By tapping and touching, the sightless person does not feel the cane per se but the objects—the curb, the doorway—that are felt through the tool, in the same way sighted people experience these objects through their eyes.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
The distraught and sightless Orion wandered hopelessly for days on end.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2024
Yet some sightless species have retained the ability to sense light.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
And this rapid development of cooperative behavior between the dogs and their partners explains why dogs are so good at helping humans in tasks that are narrowly defined, such as leading a sightless person through busy city streets.
—Ádám Miklósi, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
The species is among the first arthropods identified as having this ability, although researchers have separately discovered it in some sightless species of fish and shrimp.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 16 Feb. 2023
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
Despite the chaos and confusion, it’s quickly established that the extraterrestrial predators are sightless and respond only to noise.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
By tapping and touching, the sightless person does not feel the cane per se but the objects—the curb, the doorway—that are felt through the tool, in the same way sighted people experience these objects through their eyes.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
The distraught and sightless Orion wandered hopelessly for days on end.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2024
Yet some sightless species have retained the ability to sense light.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
And this rapid development of cooperative behavior between the dogs and their partners explains why dogs are so good at helping humans in tasks that are narrowly defined, such as leading a sightless person through busy city streets.
—Ádám Miklósi, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
The species is among the first arthropods identified as having this ability, although researchers have separately discovered it in some sightless species of fish and shrimp.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 16 Feb. 2023
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“Sightless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sightless. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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