Sightless
/ˈsaɪt.ləs/noun
Unable to see; blind.
Did you know?Unlike words with dark occult histories, *sightless* is a plain Old English-style formation, but it shows how English can turn a missing sense into a named state with one suffix.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
siht / gesiht
“sight, seeing, vision”
Old English
OE
-lēas
“free from, lacking, without”
Middle English
ME
sightles
“without sight; blind”
Modern English
English
sightless
“unable to see; blind”