blind
/ˈblaɪ̯nd/ adjective, noun, verb, adverb, proper noun
Also a form of blende
Forms blinder blindest blinds blinding blinded blound blinde
- adjective (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see. “Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.”
- adjective (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive. “The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.”
- adjective (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility. “a blind path”
- adjective (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless. “a blind alley”
- adjective (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless. “a blind wall”
- adjective (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end. “a blind rivet”
- adjective (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest. “I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.”
- adjective (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge. “He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.”
- noun A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- noun A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- noun A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife. “a duck blind”
- noun Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- noun (military) A blindage.
- noun A hiding place.
- noun (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- noun (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- verb (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind. “The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.”
- verb (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- verb To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- verb To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Synonyms
sightless rollsign screen subterfuge dim unsighted unreasoning
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.
English, German, and Jewish/Yiddish surname, all related to the adjective blind.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
- adjective 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.
- verb To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson.
- verb To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Etymology [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
Etymology [Cf. F. blindes, pblende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blind”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details