blind

  • (a) 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"--Kenneth Jernigan
    unsighted,
  • (s) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
    • blind to a lover's faults
    • blind to the consequences of their actions
  • (s) not based on reason or evidence
    • blind hatred
    • blind faith
    • unreasoning panic
    unreasoning,

Nouns

  • (n) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
    • he spent hours reading to the blind
  • (n) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
    • he waited impatiently in the blind
  • (n) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
    • they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
    screen,
  • (n) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
    • he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
    • the holding company was just a blind
    subterfuge,

Verbs

  • (v) render unable to see
  • (v) make blind by putting the eyes out
    • The criminals were punished and blinded
  • (v) make dim by comparison or conceal dim,

Synonyms

unsighted unreasoning screen dim subterfuge

Antonyms

sighted

Words of close approximity

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blip
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