sightless
Unable to see
Sightless means unable to see—blind.
The word appears more often in literary or formal contexts than in everyday speech: sightless eyes stared at the ceiling.
It can also describe things that lack the capacity for sight: sightless creatures of the deep ocean.
Lacking the sense of sight
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- vision-impairedHaving reduced eyesight
- eyelessLacking organs of vision
- nonvisualNot involving sight
lightless · unperceiving · glaucoma · cataracts · retinopathy
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- ignorantLacking knowledge or awareness
- heedlessCareless of consequences
imperceptive · undiscerning · blinkered · myopic · narrow-minded
Of the touching sense
blind
Lacking the sense of sight
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- vision-impairedHaving reduced eyesight
- eyelessLacking organs of vision
nonvisual · lightless · unperceiving · glaucoma · cataracts · retinopathy
unaware
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- ignorantLacking knowledge or awareness
heedless · imperceptive · undiscerning · blinkered · myopic · narrow-minded
tactile
Of the touching sense
stylus · screen-reader · audio-description · cane · echolocation
pitch-black
Completely without light
moonless · starless · blackout · cave · abyss · void · subterranean · deep-sea · windowless · eclipsed
- visionsharp, eye, visual perception, eyes, blurry
sightlesseagle-eyed
Exceptionally sharp of vision
sharp-eyed · lynx-eyed · hawk-eyed · keen-eyed · gimlet-eyed