sight unseen
sight unseen adjective: not having seen the object beforehand.
Adjective
sight unseen (not comparable)
- Not having seen the object beforehand.
- When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace
- More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction.2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times, retrieved 01 Sep 2008
Forms of sight unseen
| alternative form | unsight unseen |
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Origin of sight unseen
Absolute construction reportedly first attested 1892.
Words that rhyme with sight unseen
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about sight unseen
- What does sight unseen mean?
- Sight unseen means not having seen the object beforehand.
- What part of speech is sight unseen?
- Sight unseen is an adjective.
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