blind
(noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
adjective
1. 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
Similar word(s): blinded, blindfold, blindfolded, dazzled, deuteranopic, purblind, eyeless, sightless, unseeing, protanopic, tritanopic, unsighted
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
- blind to a lover's faults
- blind to the consequences of their actions
Similar word(s): unperceiving, unperceptive
3. not based on reason or evidence
- blind hatred
- blind faith
Similar word(s): irrational, unreasoning
Sentences with blind as an adjective:
- The lovers were blind to each other's faults.
- Authors are blind to their own defects.
- a blind path; a blind ditch; a blind corner
- a blind wall, open only at one end; a blind alley; a blind gut
- I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
- We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
- He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
- blind deference
- blind punishment
- a blind passage in a book; blind writing
- blind buds; blind flowers
adverb
1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
2. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
noun
1. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
- he spent hours reading to the blind
Definition categories: group, people
2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- he waited impatiently in the blind
Definition categories: man–made, concealment, cover, covert, screen
3. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Similar word(s): screen
Definition categories: man–made, protection
4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- the holding company was just a blind
Similar word(s): subterfuge
Definition categories: communication, deceit, deception, misrepresentation
Sentences with blind as a noun:
- a duck blind
verb
1. render unable to see
Definition categories: perception
2. make blind by putting the eyes out
- The criminals were punished and blinded
Definition categories: perception, alter, change, modify
3. make dim by comparison or conceal
Similar word(s): dim
Definition categories: change, darken
Sentences with blind as a verb:
- The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
- Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?