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.
Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result: blind taste tests used in marketing studies.
Performed without preparation, experience, or knowledge: made a blind stab at answering the question.
Performed by instruments and without the use of sight: blind navigation.
Difficult to comprehend or see; illegible.
Incompletely or illegibly addressed: blind mail.
Hidden from sight: a blind seam.
Screened from the view of oncoming motorists: a blind driveway.
Secret or otherwise undisclosed: a blind item in a military budget.
Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result: blind taste tests used in marketing studies.
Performed without preparation, experience, or knowledge: made a blind stab at answering the question.
Performed by instruments and without the use of sight: blind navigation.
Difficult to comprehend or see; illegible.
Incompletely or illegibly addressed: blind mail.
Hidden from sight: a blind seam.
Screened from the view of oncoming motorists: a blind driveway.
Secret or otherwise undisclosed: a blind item in a military budget.
Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand: blind to a lover's faults.
Not based on reason or evidence; unquestioning: put blind faith in their leaders.
Slang Drunk.
Lacking reason or purpose: blind fate; blind choice.
Difficult to comprehend or see; illegible.
Incompletely or illegibly addressed: blind mail.
Hidden from sight: a blind seam.
Screened from the view of oncoming motorists: a blind driveway.
Secret or otherwise undisclosed: a blind item in a military budget.
Closed at one end: a blind socket; a blind passage.
Having no opening: a blind wall.
Botany Failing to produce flowers or fruits: a blind bud.
n.
(used with a pl. verb) Blind people considered as a group. Used with the:a radio station for reading to the blind.
Something, such as a window shade or a Venetian blind, that hinders vision or shuts out light.
A shelter for concealing hunters or nature photographers.
Something intended to conceal the true nature, especially of an activity; a subterfuge.
adv.
Without seeing; blindly.
Without the aid of visual reference: flew blind through the fog.
Without forethought or provision; unawares: entered into the scheme blind.
Without significant information, especially that might affect an outcome or result: "When you read blind, you see everything but the author"(Margaret Atwood).
Informal Into a stupor: drank themselves blind.
Used as an intensive: Thieves in the bazaar robbed us blind.
tr.v.
blind·ed, blind·ing, blinds
To deprive of sight: was blinded in an industrial accident.
To dazzle: skiers temporarily blinded by sunlight on snow.
To deprive of perception or insight: prejudice that blinded them to the merits of the proposal.
To withhold light from: Thick shrubs blinded our downstairs windows.
[Middle English, from Old English; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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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