blank

blank is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of a white or pale color; without color. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of a white or pale color; without color.
2. adjective. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3. adjective. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
4. adjective. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
5. adjective. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
6. adjective. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
7. adjective. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
8. noun. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
9. noun. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
10. noun. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
11. noun. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
12. noun. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
13. noun. Aim; shot; range.
14. noun. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
15. noun. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
16. noun. A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
17. transitive verb. To make void; to annul.
18. transitive verb. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
19. noun. a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

    Synonyms: dummy

20. noun. a piece of material ready to be made into something
21. noun. a blank gap or missing part

    Synonyms: lacuna

22. noun. a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing

    "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"

    Synonyms: space

23. verb. keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
24. adjective. void of expression

    "a blank stare"

    Synonyms: vacuous

25. adjective. (of a surface) not written or printed on

    "blank pages"

    "fill in the blank spaces"

    Synonyms: clean, white

26. adjective. not charged with a bullet

    "a blank cartridge"

Synonyms

dummy, lacuna, space, vacuous, clean, white

Common word forms

blanks, blanked, blanker, blankly, blankest, blanking, blankness

Words from these letters

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