blind

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
2. (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
3. (not-comparable) Having little or no visibility.
4. (not-comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
5. (not-comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
6. (in-certain-phrases) Smallest or slightest.
7. (not-comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
8. (not-comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
9. Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
10. Unintelligible or illegible.
11. not having a well-defined head.
12. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
13. (slang) Uncircumcised.

Noun

1. 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.
2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3. A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
5. A blindage.
6. A hiding place.
7. (colloquial) The blindside.
8. (slang) No score.
9. A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
10. A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
2. (obsolete, slang) To curse.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
4. 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.

Adv

1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
2. (colloquial) Absolutely, totally.
3. Without looking at the cards dealt.
4. (especially, in-compounds) As a pastry case only, without any filling.

Opposite of

seeing, sighted

Synonyms

sightless

make blind

screen

curtain

blindness

spoil

dazzle

eyeless

unsighted

shade

window blind

subterfuge

bad

👎

blind man

blind person

blank

hide

unreasoning

sightless person

shutter

reckless

unseeing

careless

unknowing

trick

solid

become blind

excuse

dim

pretext

tight

detached

deaf

deadlock

dead-end

blindly

baffle

covering

inextricable

cloak

blindfold

at random

indifferent

hollow-eyed

cecum

hanging

cavalier

insensitive

irrational

benight

Translations

aveugle

ciego

cieco

blind

cego

blind

τυφλός

caecus

kör

cec

kor

aveugler

accecare

blenden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blaɪnd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blynd

Inherited from Old English: blind

In summary

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.