eyeless

1. 1.

   lacking eyes or eyelike features

   “eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves”

   “an eyeless needle”

   Antonymseyed
2. 2.

   lacking sight

   “blind as an eyeless beggar”

   Synonymssightlessunseeing

   Similarblind

Other forms of eyeless

comparative

eyelesser·

superlative

eyelessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eyeless

What does eyeless mean?

eyeless means "lacking eyes or eyelike features". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eyeless?

eyeless has 2 syllables: eye-less. The stress falls on "eye". In IPA it is /ˈaɪləs/.

What is another word for eyeless?

Close synonyms include sightless, unseeing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of eyeless?

The recorded antonyms are eyed.

Is eyeless a common word?

eyeless is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.