Blind

Quick meaning: Blind is an adjective meaning (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

Meaning

(not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

More Meanings

1. (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
2. (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
3. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
4. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
5. (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
6. (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
7. (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.

Example Sentences

his blind eye

Authors are blind to their own defects.

Braille is a writing system for the blind.

The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.

Word Forms

• blinder
• blindest
• blinde
• blinds
• blinding
• blinded

Synonyms for blind

Depending on context, synonyms include rollsign, sightless, besotted, subterfuge, stiff, dim.

Antonyms for blind

Common opposites include seeing, sighted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sand-blind, purblind, blindfolded, excecate, dim-sighted, blindfold.

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