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[blahynd] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, verb, noun, adverb
—Related forms
[blahynd] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, verb, noun, adverb –adjective
–verb (used with object)
–noun
–adverb
| 1. | unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man. |
| 2. | unwilling or unable to perceive or understand: They were blind to their children's faults. He was blind to all arguments. |
| 3. | not characterized or determined by reason or control: blind tenacity; blind chance. |
| 4. | not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning: She had blind faith in his fidelity. |
| 5. | lacking all consciousness or awareness: a blind stupor. |
| 6. | drunk. |
| 7. | hard to see or understand: blind reasoning. |
| 8. | hidden from immediate view, esp. from oncoming motorists: a blind corner. |
| 9. | of concealed or undisclosed identity; sponsored anonymously: a blind ad signed only with a box number. |
| 10. | having no outlets; closed at one end: a blind passage; a blind mountain pass. |
| 11. | Architecture. (of an archway, arcade, etc.) having no windows, passageways, or the like. |
| 12. | dense enough to form a screen: a blind hedge of privet. |
| 13. | done without seeing; by instruments alone: blind flying. |
| 14. | made without some prior knowledge: a blind purchase; a blind lead in a card game. |
| 15. | of or pertaining to an experimental design that prevents investigators or subjects from knowing the hypotheses or conditions being tested. |
| 16. | of, pertaining to, or for blind persons. |
| 17. | Bookbinding. (of a design, title, or the like) impressed into the cover or spine of a book by a die without ink or foil. |
| 18. | Cookery. (of pastry shells) baked or fried without the filling. |
| 19. | (of a rivet or other fastener) made so that the end inserted, though inaccessible, can be headed or spread. |
| 20. | to make sightless permanently, temporarily, or momentarily, as by injuring, dazzling, bandaging the eyes, etc.: The explosion blinded him. We were blinded by the bright lights. |
| 21. | to make obscure or dark: The room was blinded by heavy curtains. |
| 22. | to deprive of discernment, reason, or judgment: a resentment that blinds his good sense. |
| 23. | to outshine; eclipse: a radiance that doth blind the sun. |
| 24. | something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse. |
| 25. | a window covering having horizontal or vertical slats that can be drawn out of the way, often with the angle of the slats adjustable to admit varying amounts of light. |
| 26. | Venetian blind. |
| 27. | Chiefly Midland U.S. and British. window shade. |
| 28. | a lightly built structure of brush or other growths, esp. one in which hunters conceal themselves: a duck blind. |
| 29. | an activity, organization, or the like for concealing or masking action or purpose; subterfuge: The store was just a blind for their gambling operation. |
| 30. | a decoy. |
| 31. | Slang. a bout of excessive drinking; drunken spree. |
| 32. | Poker. a compulsory bet made without prior knowledge of one's hand. |
| 33. | (used with a plural verb) persons who lack the sense of sight (usually preceded by the): The blind are said to have an acute sense of hearing. |
| 34. | into a stupor; to the degree at which consciousness is lost: He drank himself blind. |
| 35. | without the ability to see clearly; lacking visibility; blindly: They were driving blind through the snowstorm. |
| 36. | without guidance or forethought: They were working blind and couldn't anticipate the effects of their actions. |
| 37. | to an extreme or absolute degree; completely: The confidence men cheated her blind. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; (adj.) ME blind, OE; c. Goth blinds, ON blindr, G, D blind (< Gmc *blindaz, perh. akin to blend; original sense uncert.); (v.) ME blinden, deriv. of the adj.]
] —Related forms
blind·ing·ly, adverb
blindness, noun
—Synonyms 1. Blind, stone-blind, purblind mean unable to see. Blind means unable to see with the physical eyes. Stone-blind emphasizes complete blindness. Purblind refers to weakened vision, literally or figuratively. 4. irrational, uncritical, rash, thoughtless, unreasoning. 8. concealed. 25. See curtain. 28. hiding place, ambush.
—Antonyms 1. seeing. 2. receptive. 4. rational.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| blind
(blīnd) Pronunciation Key
adj. blind·er, blind·est
n.
adv.
tr.v. blind·ed, blind·ing, blinds
[Middle English, from Old English; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] blind'ing·ly adv., blind'ly adv., blind'ness n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
blind (adj.)
blind (adj.)
O.E. blind "blind," probably sharing with blend a P.Gmc. base *blindaz, from PIE base *bhlendh- "to glimmer indistinctly, to mix, confuse" (cf. Lith. blendzas "blind," blesti "to become dark"). The original sense, not of "sightless," but of "confused," perhaps underlies such phrases as blind alley. The verb is O.E. blendan, influenced in M.E. by the adj. The noun meaning "anything that obstructs sight" is from 1535. Blindman's bluff is from 1590. Blind date is from 1920s. Blind side "unguarded aspect" is from 1606; the verb meaning "to hit from the blind side" (written as one word) first attested 1968, Amer.Eng., in ref. to U.S. football.
"The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candles, is commonly called blindman's holiday." [1796]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| blind | |
adjective | |
| 1. | 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 [ant: sighted] |
| 2. | unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions" |
| 3. | not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic" |
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"; "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: 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 |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
blind
In addition to the idioms beginning with blind, also see fly blind; rob someone blind; turn a blind eye.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
blind'ness n.
blind (blīnd)
adj.
- Unable to see; without useful sight.
- Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
- Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
- Closed at one end, as a tube or sac.
blind'ness n.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Blind
Blind\, a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --Shak. 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --Milton. 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. --Jay. 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. --Milton. 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. --Knight. Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. Blind cat (Zo["o]l.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. --Simmonds. Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a. Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. --Knight. Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. --Swift. Blind snake (Zo["o]l.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes. Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." --Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. --South. 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher. 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. --Stillingfleet. 4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
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Blind\, n. 1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse. 2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. 3. [Cf. F. blindes, p?., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage. 4. A halting place. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Blind\, Blinde \Blinde\, n. See Blende.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Blind
Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be treated with compassion (Lev. 19:14; Deut. 27:18). Blindness was sometimes a punishment for disobedience (1 Sam. 11:2; Jer. 39:7), sometimes the effect of old age (Gen. 27:1; 1 Kings 14:4; 1 Sam. 4:15). Conquerors sometimes blinded their captives (2 Kings 25:7; 1 Sam. 11:2). Blindness denotes ignorance as to spiritual things (Isa. 6:10; 42:18, 19; Matt. 15:14; Eph. 4:18). The opening of the eyes of the blind is peculiar to the Messiah (Isa. 29:18). Elymas was smitten with blindness at Paul's word (Acts 13:11).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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