Definition: a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
Usage: they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Similar words: protection, protective cover, protective covering
Definition: a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
Usage: they had no protection from the fallout; wax provided protection for the floors
Synonyms: blind
Definition: a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
Usage: he waited impatiently in the blind
Similar words: screen, concealment, cover, covert
Definition: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
Usage: a screen of trees afforded privacy; under cover of darkness; the brush provided a covert for game; the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: deceit, deception, misrepresentation
Definition: a misleading falsehood
Synonyms: blind
Definition: people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
Usage: he spent hours reading to the blind
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Definition: make dim by comparison or conceal
Synonyms: blind
Definition: make blind by putting the eyes out
Usage: The criminals were punished and blinded
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: blind
Definition: unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
Usage: blind to a lover's faults; blind to the consequences of their actions
Similar words: unperceiving, unperceptive
Definition: lacking perception
Usage: as unperceptive as a boulder
Synonyms: unreasoning, blind
Definition: not based on reason or evidence
Usage: blind hatred; blind faith; unreasoning panic
Similar words: irrational
Definition: not consistent with or using reason
Usage: irrational fears; irrational animals
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
Similar words: blinded
Definition: deprived of sight
Similar words: blindfold, blindfolded
Definition: wearing a blindfold
Similar words: color-blind, colour-blind
Definition: unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
Similar words: dazzled
Definition: having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light
Usage: she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance
Similar words: deuteranopic, green-blind
Definition: inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red
Similar words: visually challenged, visually impaired, sand-blind, near-blind, purblind, dim-sighted
Definition: having greatly reduced vision
Similar words: unseeing, sightless, eyeless
Definition: lacking sight
Usage: blind as an eyeless beggar
Similar words: protanopic, red-blind
Definition: inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green
Similar words: snow-blind, snow-blinded
Definition: temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice
Similar words: stone-blind
Definition: completely blind
Similar words: tritanopic, blue-blind
Definition: inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow