blind
Other forms: blinded; blinding; blinds; blindest; blindingly
Someone who's blind can't see. People who are blind can often get around easily with the aid of a cane and sometimes a service dog.
You might get hit by a baseball and end up blind in one eye, or be temporarily blind after a trip to the eye doctor. The word also means "without looking," as in a blind taste test of three different brands of chocolate milk. A figurative way to be blind is to refuse or be unable to see the truth: "He was blind to the reality of the situation." This tendency can be called a person's "blind side."
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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”synonyms: unsightedblindeddeprived of sightdazzledhaving vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense lightdim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impairedhaving greatly reduced visionstone-blindcompletely blindantonyms:sightedable to seeargus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedhaving very keen visionclear-sightedhaving sharp clear visionseeinghaving vision, not blind
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unable or unwilling to perceive or understand“blind to the consequences of their actions”synonyms:
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make blind by putting the eyes out
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render unable to see
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make dim by comparison or conceal
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people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group“he spent hours reading to the blind”type of:people(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
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not based on reason or evidence
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something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
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a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight“they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet”synonyms: screentypes:shuttera hinged blind for a windowwindow blinda blind for privacy or to keep out lightblinder, blinker, winkerblind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either sidedeadlighta strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weatherdrop, drop cloth, drop curtaina curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background sceneryfestoona curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curvesfrontala drapery that covers the front of an altarjalousiea shutter made of angled slatsportierea heavy curtain hung across a doorwayshower curtaina curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower areatheater curtain, theatre curtaina hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performanceVenetian blinda window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closedwindow shadean opaque window blind that can cover or uncover a windowtype of:protection, protective cover, protective coveringa covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
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a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
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