Definition of viewless in English:
viewless
adjective ˈvjuːləsˈvyo͞oləs
1Not having or affording a pleasant sight or prospect.
Example sentencesExamples
- Costing less, but viewless and more like ordinary hotel rooms, are those in the modern wing.
2literary Unable to be seen; invisible.
the enormous viewless mantle of the night
Example sentencesExamples
- To borrow Keats's words, humankind ascends on the ‘viewless wings of Poesy’ towards the Godhead (‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 33).
- By dawn on Saturday, the fog had taken possession of the downtown streets: the coast road would be viewless.
- This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’