Blind Meaning and Definition

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