stone-blind

[ stohn-blahynd ]

adjective
  1. completely blind.

Origin of stone-blind

1
1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde;see stone, blind

synonym study For stone-blind

See blind.

Other words from stone-blind

  • stoneblindness, noun

Words Nearby stone-blind

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use stone-blind in a sentence

  • When he had opened and read about four letters, his moral nature turned stone-blind of one eye.

  • He was still hunched up in the record-man's chair, and to all appearances had gone stone-blind crazy.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • She, too, had the choice to indulge in scorn of the superior man stone blind to proceedings intimately affecting him—if he cared!

  • Theoretically, it seems strange that able-bodied individuals should be afraid of a man who is stone blind.

    Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon Phelps
  • All these men present' (pointing to his fellow villagers) 'know it to be the truth; and if I lie, may I become stone blind!

British Dictionary definitions for stone-blind

stone-blind

adjective
  1. completely blind: Compare sand-blind

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012