blind

/blˈaɪnd/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

adjective

1. 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”
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
   “blind to a lover's faults”
3. not based on reason or evidence
   “blind hatred”

noun

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

verb

1. render unable to see
2. make blind by putting the eyes out
   “The criminals were punished and blinded”
3. make dim by comparison or conceal

Synonyms for blind

• unsighted
• blinded
• blindfold
• color-blind
• dazzled
• deuteranopic
• dim-sighted
• eyeless
• protanopic
• snow-blind
• stone-blind
• tritanopic
• unperceptive
• unreasoning
• irrational
• screen
• subterfuge
• dim

Antonyms of blind

• sighted

Words that rhyme with blind

• find
• wind
• mind
• bind
• grind
• behind
• refined
• kind
• unwind
• confined
• hind
• inclined
• lined
• mastermind
• aligned
• defined
• remind
• signed
• streamlined
• unconfined
• unkind
• unlined
• unrefined
• affined
• assigned
• combined
• designed
• disinclined
• humankind
• mankind