sightless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Without sight; blind; unseeing. not-comparable
    — And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.
  2. Synonym of invisible. not-comparable
    — In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.

词汇关系

衍生词
sightlessly sightlessness

词源

Etymology tree
English sight
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English sightless
From sight + -less.
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