Word: Blind
How to pronounce: blaɪnd
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Unable to see because of injury, disease, or a congenital condition.
Example sentences: "A blind man with a stick"
2. Lacking perception, awareness, or discernment.
Example sentences: "She was blind to the realities of her position"
3. (of a corner or bend in a road) impossible to see around.
Example sentences: "Two trucks collided on a blind curve in the road"
4. (used in emphatic expressions) not the slightest.
5. (of a plant) without buds, eyes, or terminal flowers.
Example sentences: "Planting too shallowly is the most common cause of bulbs coming up blind"
6. Drunk.
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Cause (someone) to be unable to see, permanently or temporarily.
Example sentences: "The injury temporarily blinded him"
2. Deprive (someone) of understanding, judgment, or perception.
Example sentences: "Somehow Clare and I were blinded to the truth"
Noun
Definitions:
1. People who are unable to see.
Example sentences: "Guide dogs for the blind"
2. A screen for a window, especially one on a roller or made of slats.
Example sentences: "She pulled down the blinds"
3. Something designed to conceal one's real intentions.
Example sentences: "He phoned again from his own home: that was just a blind for his wife"
4. A heavy drinking bout.
5. A legitimate business concealing a criminal enterprise.
Example sentences: "The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house."
Adverb
Definitions:
1. Without being able to see clearly.
Example sentences: "He was the first pilot in history to fly blind"
Synonyms:
blind man
blindman
sightless
unseeing
impaired
in the dark
blindfold
deaf
venetian blind
window shades
dim
eyeless
tight
Derivations:
blinded
blinding
blindness
blindly
blindage
Blind in Other Languages...
Spanish: Ciego
German: Blind
French: Aveugle
Italian: Cieco
Turkish: Körlük
