blind

Meaning

Adj

1. Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
2. Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
3. Having little or no visibility.
4. Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
5. Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
6. Smallest or slightest.
7. Without any prior knowledge.
8. 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. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
12. (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. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
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. 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. As a pastry case only, without any filling.

Synonyms

sightless

make blind

curtain

screen

blindness

dazzle

spoil

eyeless

unsighted

window blind

shade

reckless

blind person

hide

subterfuge

bad

👎

unreasoning

shutter

blind man

sightless person

blank

unknowing

solid

dim

unseeing

trick

excuse

pretext

careless

tight

become blind

guise

gut

hanging

hollow-eyed

indifferent

inextricable

insensitive

irrational

jalousie

look at

mantle

mystification

negligent

nonchalant

noncritical

pretence

pretense

purblind

red herring

shades

siding

slaphappy

stalemate

stalking-horse

stall

stalling

sunshade

tortuous

strike blind

uncomprehending

unconcerned

uncritical

undeterred

undiscouraged

unheeding

unresponsive

unsurprised

Venetian blind

visionless

warp

wholehearted

wry

ablepsia

degage

go blind

jiggery-pokery

make crooked

not seeing

without knowing

bamboo screen

ablepsy

cecal

cecitas

photostable

seel

typhlosis

without sight

not surprised

guard board

splash board

back plate

sleeve nut

bumper plate

stop plate

repelling board

dam board

cut out board

aperture

screw-cap

apron

at random

awning

awry

baffle

baffle plate

bedazzle

benight

blindfold

blindly

blinds

bluff

breezy

buffer

caecum

cavalier

cecum

cloak

covering

dead-end

deadlock

deaf

detached

diaphragm

drapery

dumb

extinct

flap

flapper

front

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blaɪnd/

Etymology

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