Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Providing no view.
  • adjective Not having or expressing opinions or views.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without a view.
  • adjective poetic invisible; unseen

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not having or expressing opinions or views

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

view +‎ -less

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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.

    Harmon Leon: Craigslist Roommate Nightmares Mon Amour! Harmon Leon 2010

  • 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.

    Harmon Leon: Craigslist Roommate Nightmares Mon Amour! Harmon Leon 2010

  • Flings with light lash the viewless hair, and tries

    Progress of Society 2006

  • 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 2008

  • 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 2007

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

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

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

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • 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 2006

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

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

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

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

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