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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Providing no view.
  2. adj. Not having or expressing opinions or views.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not capable of being viewed or seen; not perceived by the eye; invisible.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Without a view.
  2. adj. poetic invisible; unseen

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not having or expressing opinions or views

Etymologies

  1. view +‎ -less (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “This previous tenant reports hearing strange voices in this room and waking up several times at 3 in morning and either seeing a shadowy figure at the foot of the bed or faces staring in the viewless window.”

    The Huffington Post: Harmon Leon: Craigslist Roommate Nightmares Mon Amour!

  • “Hereward could not help remembering the traditions which were recounted by the fathers of his tribe, in the deep woods, of Hampshire, and which spoke of invisible huntsmen, who were heard to follow with viewless horses and hounds the unseen chase through the depths of the forests of Germany.”

    Count Robert of Paris

  • “Flings with light lash the viewless hair, and tries”

    Progress of Society

  • “Yet, as it did chance, no harm came to me, and I gat away, as that some wondrous power did cast a viewless cloak about me, that I might be utter hid; and oft have I wondered whether this was truly so; but have no knowing.”

    The Night Land

  • “The summit was a disappointment, flat and empty and viewless.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “So, Zac, the prospect of your impending new soundproof/viewless barren poured concrete digs starting to sink in?”

    Firedoglake » “Lapdogs” and the FDL Book Salon

  • “The speed of the current in her veins was just then as swift as it was viewless.”

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

  • “While many a viewless spirit in the wind, Sighs to the lonely hour in accents sweet!”

    The Romance of the Forest

  • “Thou sweepest over the earth, and oaks, the growth of centuries, submit to thy viewless axe; the snow-drift is scattered on the pinnacles of the Alps, the avalanche thunders down their vallies.”

    The Last Man

  • “Voiceless and viewless, stirless and wordless, he kept his station behind the pile of flowers.”

    Villette

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