blind
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
arts
ball-games
baseball
business
card-games
construction
cooking
crafts
engineering
food
games
government
hobbies
horticulture
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poker
politics
rugby
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.
Inflected forms:
form: blinder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blindest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blinde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: blinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blinde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: blinds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blinding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blinded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blinded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blound
pos: verb
tags: humorous
nonstandard
participle
past
form: blound
pos: verb
tags: humorous
nonstandard
past
form: blinde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more blind
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blind
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: blinde
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
Braille is a writing system for the blind.
his blind eye
He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
gloss: Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
Authors are blind to their own defects.
God knows that I tried / Seeing the bright side / (I’m wide awake) / But I’m not blind anymore
gloss: Having little or no visibility.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a blind path
a blind ditch
a blind corner
the blind mazes of this tangled wood
gloss: Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a blind alley
a blind fistula
a blind gut
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.
North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
gloss: Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a blind wall
a blind alley
gloss: Able to be fixed without access to one end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a blind rivet
gloss: Smallest or slightest.
pos: adj
tags: in-certain-phrases
examples: I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.
We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
gloss: Without any prior knowledge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
I went into the meeting totally blind, so I really didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.
gloss: Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: blind deference
blind justice
blind punishment
1787–1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.
America spells competition / Join us in our blind ambition / Get yourself a brand-new motor car
gloss: Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
pos: adj
examples: a blind trial
gloss: Unintelligible or illegible.
pos: adj
examples: a blind passage in a book; blind writing
gloss: not having a well-defined head.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
pos: adj
examples: blind buds
blind flowers
gloss: Uncircumcised.
pos: adj
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway.
Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
gloss: A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
pos: noun
examples: a duck blind
Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.
A gang of children […] stampede along a slatted path to a blind beside a watering hole: a wooden hut full of long benches with a slot they can peek through, invisible to the animals.
gloss: Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
pos: noun
gloss: A blindage.
pos: noun
gloss: A hiding place.
pos: noun
examples: So, when the watchful shepherd, from the blind,
Wounds with a random shaft the careless hind
gloss: The blindside.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: No score.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
pos: noun
examples: The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.
gloss: A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
pos: noun
examples: The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.
gloss: To make temporarily or permanently blind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
Don’t wave that pencil in my face—do you want to blind me?
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is […] a much greater.
gloss: To curse, swear, use foul language
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: If you’re cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
 Don’t grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
 Be handy and civil, and then you will find
 That it’s beer for the young British soldier.
I could see the unfortunate man felt his position deeply, and I was surprised that he contented himself with a mere ‘Ouch !’ But I suppose these solid citizens have to learn to curb the tongue. Creates a bad impression, I mean, if they start blinding and stiffing as those more happily placed would be.
gloss: To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
pos: verb
examples: He ſought, but in the dark tempeſtuous Night
He knew not whither to direct his Sight.
So whirl the Seas, ſuch Darkneſs blinds the Sky,
That the black Night receives a deeper Dye.
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: Without seeing; unseeingly.
pos: adv
examples: It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
gloss: Absolutely, totally.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: to swear blind
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
gloss: Without looking at the cards dealt.
pos: adv
gloss: As a pastry case only, without any filling.
pos: adv
tags: especially
in-compounds
examples: Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.
If the shell is going to be baked without a filling, “baking the crust blind,” prick the bottom and sides of the crust to allow the steam to escape. Another variation: line the bottom of the crust with parchment paper […]
PIE WEIGHTS: When you are baking a crust blind, which means when you are partially or fully baking it without filling (see blind-baking, page 474), you need something to keep the crust from puffing up: weights.
Related words: invisible
print disabled
curtain
jalousie
Derived words: 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 baking
Blind Bight
blind bit
blind boil
blind box
blind carbon copy
blind coal
blind-copy
blind curve
blind date
blind drunk
blind ecash
blind envelope
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 massage
blind mole-rat
blind nailing
blind passenger
blind person
blind pig
blind pocket
blind pool
blind quote
blind rage
blind reader
blind rivet
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
legally 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
blinders
blind map
accordion blind
big blind
blindless
chick-blind
miniblind
muscleblind
small blind
sunblind
Venetian blind
blindability
blindable
blinded by nostalgia
blinder
blinding
blindness
blind with science
eff and blind
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: ciegu
lang: Catalan
word: cec
lang: Finnish
word: sokea
lang: Galician
word: cego
lang: German
word: blind
lang: German
word: unkritisch
lang: German
word: ignorant
lang: Portuguese
word: cego
lang: Spanish
word: ciego
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كور
roman: kör