Lidless

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a lid. not-comparable

    "1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15, […] yet, as she lies By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream, If ever to her lidless dragon eyes, O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise, The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap, Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep."

Adjective
  1. 1
    always watchful wordnet
  2. 2
    not having or covered with a lid or lids wordnet
  3. 3
    having no lid wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
all earscustodialguardedhawk eyedobservanton guard

Antonyms

All antonyms
lidded

Example

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"Next, the snake has scales over his eyes and cannot see very well with these lidless eyes."

Etymology

From lid + -less.

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