BLIND
Dictionary entry overview: What does blind mean?
• BLIND (noun)
The noun BLIND has 4 senses:
1. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
3. something that keeps things out or hinders sight
4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
Familiarity information: BLIND used as a noun is uncommon.
• BLIND (adjective)
The adjective BLIND has 3 senses:
1. unable to see
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
3. not based on reason or evidence
Familiarity information: BLIND used as an adjective is uncommon.
• BLIND (verb)
The verb BLIND has 3 senses:
1. render unable to see
2. make blind by putting the eyes out
3. make dim by comparison or conceal
Familiarity information: BLIND used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• BLIND (noun)
Meaning:
People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
he spent hours reading to the blind
Hypernyms ("blind" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "blind"):
blind person (a person with a severe visual impairment)
Meaning:
A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
he waited impatiently in the blind
Hypernyms ("blind" is a kind of...):
concealment; cover; covert; screen (a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something)
Meaning:
Something that keeps things out or hinders sight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
screen; blind
Context example:
they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Hypernyms ("blind" is a kind of...):
protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blind"):
curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall (hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window))
shutter (a hinged blind for a window)
window blind (a blind for privacy or to keep out light)
blinder; blinker; winker (blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side)
Meaning:
Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
subterfuge; blind
Context examples:
he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge / the holding company was just a blind
Hypernyms ("blind" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)
• BLIND (adjective)
Meaning:
Unable to see
Synonyms:
blind; unsighted
Context example:
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
Similar:
stone-blind (completely blind)
snow-blind; snow-blinded (temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice)
protanopic; red-blind (inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green)
eyeless; sightless; unseeing (lacking sight)
dim-sighted; near-blind; purblind; sand-blind; visually challenged; visually impaired (having greatly reduced vision)
deuteranopic; green-blind (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)
dazzled (having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light)
color-blind; colour-blind (unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors)
blindfold; blindfolded (wearing a blindfold)
blinded (deprived of sight)
blue-blind; tritanopic (inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow)
Antonym:
sighted (able to see)
Meaning:
Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
Context examples:
blind to a lover's faults / blind to the consequences of their actions
Similar:
unperceiving; unperceptive (lacking perception)
Meaning:
Not based on reason or evidence
Synonyms:
unreasoning; blind
Context examples:
blind hatred / blind faith / unreasoning panic
Similar:
irrational (not consistent with or using reason)
• BLIND (verb)
Meaning:
Render unable to see
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blind"):
bedazzle; daze; dazzle (to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light)
seel (sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons)
snow-blind (affect with snow blindness)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make blind by putting the eyes out
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
The criminals were punished and blinded
Hypernyms (to "blind" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blind"):
abacinate (blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make dim by comparison or conceal
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blind; dim
Hypernyms (to "blind" is one way to...):
darken (make dark or darker)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
