blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: blinder
form: blindest
form: blinde
Etymology: From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Senses: examples: text: Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
text: Braille is a writing system for the blind.
text: his blind eye
text: He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
synonyms: sightless
antonyms: seeing
sighted
glosses: Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
examples: text: The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
text: Authors are blind to their own defects.
text: God knows that I tried / Seeing the bright side / (I’m wide awake) / But I’m not blind anymore
ref: 2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, performed by Katy Perry:
glosses: Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
examples: text: a blind path
text: a blind ditch
text: a blind corner
text: the blind mazes of this tangled wood
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Having little or no visibility.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: a blind alley
text: a blind fistula
text: a blind gut
text: The naric-hypophysial canal was blind at both ends, and paired olfactory sacs opened into it, as well as a narrow canal from the front of the gut.
ref: 1898, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 498:
text: North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
ref: 1914, James Joyce, Araby:
glosses: Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
examples: text: a blind wall
text: a blind alley
glosses: Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
examples: text: I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.
text: We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
glosses: Smallest or slightest.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
text: I went into the meeting totally blind, so I really didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.
glosses: Without any prior knowledge.
examples: text: blind deference
text: blind justice
text: blind punishment
text: 1787–1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.
text: America spells competition / Join us in our blind ambition / Get yourself a brand-new motor car
ref: 1977, Dennis DeYoung, “The Grand Illusion”, in The Grand Illusion, performed by Styx:
glosses: Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
examples: text: a blind trial
topics: sciences
glosses: Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
examples: text: a blind passage in a book; blind writing
glosses: Unintelligible or illegible.
examples: text: There it was, right in the middle of my forehead - the biggest, blindest, reddest pimple I'd ever seen, just hanging there like a limpet mine.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 28:
glosses: not having a well-defined head.
examples: text: blind buds
text: blind flowers
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
glosses: Uncircumcised.
Coordinate terms: ageusic
anosmic
deaf
Derived terms: a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
are you blind
beblind
blind abscess
blind alley
blind as a bat
blind as a beetle
blind as an owl
blind axle
blind bag
blind bit
blind boil
blind box
blind carbon copy
blind coal
blind-copy
blind curve
blind date
blind drunk
blind ecash
blind envelope
blinders
blind excuse
blind faith
blindfish
blind-fly
blindfold
blind folio
Blind Freddy
blindful
blind grass
blind gut
blind hockey
blind hole
blindhood
Blind Hookey
blindie
blindish
blindism
blind item
blind lantern
blind leading the blind
blind level
blind loop syndrome
blindly
blindman
blindman's buff
blind map
blind massage
blind mole-rat
blind nailing
blind passenger
blind person
blind pig
blind pocket
blind pool
blind quote
blind rage
blind reader
blinds
blind scouse
blind shell
blindside
blindsight
blind snake
blind spot
blind stamp
blind stitch
blind summit
Blind Swine Mate
blind thrust fault
blind tiger
blind trust
blind typewriter
blindworm
colour-blind
color-blind
deafblind
double-blind
emblind
even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
face-blind
gender-blind
gender blind
go it blind
gravel-blind
green-blind
inattentionally blind
inblind
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I see, said the blind man
justice is blind
love is blind
mindblindness
moon-blind
moonblind
night-blind
nonblind
nose blind
nose-blind
overblind
perceptually blind
purblind
race-blind
rob somebody blind
sand-blind
single-blind
snowblind
snow-blind
stereoblind
stone-blind
strike me blind
there are none so blind as those who will not see
time-blind
triple-blind
turn a blind eye
unblind
word-blind
Related terms: english: unable to be seen
translation: unable to be seen
word: invisible
word: print disabled