blind

Plural: blinds

Noun

• people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
  • "he spent hours reading to the blind"
• a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
  • "he waited impatiently in the blind"
• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
  • "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
• something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
  • "the holding company was just a blind"
• 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.
• A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
• A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
• Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
• A blindage.
• A hiding place.
• The blindside.
• No score.
• A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
• A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

Verb

Verb Forms: blinded, blinding, blinds

• To cause to become sightless or unaware.
• render unable to see
• make blind by putting the eyes out
  • "The criminals were punished and blinded"
• make dim by comparison or conceal
• To make temporarily or permanently blind.
• To curse.
• To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
• 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.

Adjective

• Unable to see; lacking sight.
• unable to see; --Kenneth Jernigan
  • "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"

Adjective Satellite

• unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
  • "blind to a lover's faults"
  • "blind to the consequences of their actions"
• not based on reason or evidence
  • "blind hatred"
  • "blind faith"

Adj

• Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
• Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
• Having little or no visibility.
• Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
• Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
• Smallest or slightest.
• Without any prior knowledge.
• Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
• Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
• Unintelligible or illegible.
• not having a well-defined head.
• Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
• Uncircumcised.

Adv

• Without seeing; unseeingly.
• Absolutely, totally.
• Without looking at the cards dealt.
• As a pastry case only, without any filling.

Examples

• a blind alley
• a blind corner
• a blind ditch
• a blind fistula
• a blind gut
• a blind passage in a book; blind writing
• a blind path
• a blind trial
• a blind wall
• a duck blind
• Authors are blind to their own defects.
• Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.
• blind buds
• blind deference
• blind flowers
• blind justice
• blind punishment
• Braille is a writing system for the blind.
• Don’t wave that pencil in my face—do you want to blind me?
• Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
• Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.
• He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
• his blind eye
• His opponent’s strong opening play seemed to blind him to other possibilities in Scrabble.
• His Words With Friends strategy seemed blind, placing letters without regard for future plays.
• I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.
• I went into the meeting totally blind, so I really didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.
• The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.
• The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.
• The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
• The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
• to swear blind
• We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.

Synonyms

dim, screen, subterfuge, unreasoning, unsighted, rollsign, sightless

Antonyms

sighted, seeing

Related Words

curtain, invisible, jalousie, print disabled

Anagrams of blind