UNSIGHTED

blind, unsighted

(adjective) unable to see; “a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision”--Kenneth Jernigan

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unsighted (not comparable)

Not sighted; unseen.

(firearms) Not furnished with a sight.

Source: Wiktionary


Un*sight"ed, a.

1. Not sighted, or seen. Suckling.

2. (Gun.)

Definition: Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.

UNSIGHT

Un*sight", a.

Definition: Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining. [Colloq.] Unsight unseen, a colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it. For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. Hudibras. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." Spectator.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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