Scientists in the U.S. and Australia are using new devices, experimental bionic eyes, to help bring sight to the sightless. It uses similar technology to cochlear implants that have been helping people hear for decades.
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Sightless
Synonyms for "sightless" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (19)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (31)
Adjective(3 words)
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More general
6 entriescognitive statedisabilityintellectual limitationmedical conditionperceptual impairmentsensory impairment
More specific
6 entriescognitive blindnesscompletely blindfigurative blindnesslegally blindperceptual blindnesstotally blind
Collocations
6 entriessightless gazesightless landscapesightless personsightless roomsightless statesightless world
Inflections
2 entriesmore sightlessmost sightless
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2 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.
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