blind

Speech parts

1. blind - Noun

2. blind - Adjective

3. blind - Verb

4. blind - Adverb

5. blind - Adjective Satellite

6. Blind - Proper noun

Meaning

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.

Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

A blindage. See Blindage.

A halting place.

Alt. of Blinde

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

screen dim blindfolded blindfold unthinking heedless subterfuge sightless unsighted unaware oblivious uncomprehending unperceptive unreasoning unseeing
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Antonyms

sighted miff periscope see understanding controlled
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Hypernyms

people change cover protection screen alter

Hyponyms

daze seel drapery pall blinder winker

Phrases with the word

blind alley blind spot turn a blind eye blind date blind as a bat blind leading the blind

Derivatives

blinded blinding

Examples

they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet Source: Internet

he waited impatiently in the blind Source: Internet

he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge Source: Internet

the holding company was just a blind Source: Internet

he spent hours reading to the blind Source: Internet

The criminals were punished and blinded Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

blin blinatumomab Blincoe blind abscess blind acceptance blind acquiescence