viewless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]viewless (not comparable)
- Without a view.
- a viewless hotel room
- (poetic) invisible; unseen
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- To be imprison'd in the viewless winds
- 1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- Swift through the valves the visionary fair
Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air.