blind
1. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group (Freq. 5)
- he spent hours reading to the blind
• Hypernyms:
people
• Member Meronyms:
blind person
2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) (Freq. 1)
- he waited impatiently in the blind
• Hypernyms:
screen, cover, covert, concealment
3. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight (Freq. 1)
- they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
• Syn:
screen
• Derivationally related forms:
screen (for: screen)
• Hypernyms:
protective covering, protective cover, protection
• Hyponyms:
curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall,
shutter, window blind, winker, blinker, blinder
4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
- the holding company was just a blind
• Syn:
subterfuge
• Hypernyms:
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
1. render unable to see (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
blinder
• Hyponyms:
dazzle, bedazzle, daze, seel, snow-blind
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
2. make blind by putting the eyes out (Freq. 2)
- The criminals were punished and blinded
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
abacinate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
3. make dim by comparison or conceal
• Syn:
dim
• Hypernyms:
darken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
1. unable to see (Freq. 11)
- "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
• Syn:
unsighted
• Ant:
sighted
• Similar to:
blinded, blindfold, blindfolded, color-blind, colour-blind,
dazzled, deuteranopic, green-blind, dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind,
sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged, eyeless, sightless, unseeing,
unseeing, red-blind, snow-blind, snow-blinded, stone-blind,
tritanopic, blue-blind
• Derivationally related forms:
blindness
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand (Freq. 4)
- blind to a lover's faults
- blind to the consequences of their actions
• Similar to:
unperceptive, unperceiving
3. not based on reason or evidence (Freq. 3)
- blind hatred
- blind faith
- unreasoning panic
• Syn:
unreasoning
• Similar to:
irrational
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