eyeless

adj

Etymology: From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).

1. Having no eyes (organs of sight).

   “Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.”

   “I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.”

2. Having no sight; blind.
3. Having no eye: having no hole.

   “eyeless needle”