Definitions for blind

Definitions for (noun) blind

Main entry: screen, blind

Definition: a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

Usage: they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet


Main entry: blind

Definition: a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)

Usage: he waited impatiently in the blind


Main entry: blind, subterfuge

Definition: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

Usage: he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge; the holding company was just a blind


Main entry: blind

Definition: people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

Usage: he spent hours reading to the blind


Definitions for (verb) blind

Main entry: dim, blind

Definition: make dim by comparison or conceal


Main entry: blind

Definition: make blind by putting the eyes out

Usage: The criminals were punished and blinded


Main entry: blind

Definition: render unable to see


Definitions for (adj) blind

Main entry: blind

Definition: unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

Usage: blind to a lover's faults; blind to the consequences of their actions


Main entry: unreasoning, blind

Definition: not based on reason or evidence

Usage: blind hatred; blind faith; unreasoning panic


Main entry: blind, unsighted

Definition: unable to see

Usage: a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision--Kenneth Jernigan


Visual thesaurus for blind