blind
blind is a 5-letter English word with 27 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
- adjective. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
- adjective. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
- adjective. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
- adjective. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
- adjective. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
- adjective. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
- adjective. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
- transitive verb. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
- transitive verb. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
- transitive verb. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
- transitive verb. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- noun. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
- noun. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
- noun. A blindage. See Blindage.
- noun. A halting place.
- noun. Alt. of Blinde
- noun. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
- noun. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
"he waited impatiently in the blind"
- noun. 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"
- noun. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
"he spent hours reading to the blind"
- verb. make dim by comparison or conceal
- verb. make blind by putting the eyes out
"The criminals were punished and blinded"
- verb. render unable to see
- adjective. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
"blind to a lover's faults"
"blind to the consequences of their actions"
- adjective. not based on reason or evidence
"blind hatred"
"blind faith"
- adjective. unable to see--Kenneth Jernigan
"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"
Synonyms
screen, subterfuge, dim, unreasoning, unsighted
Common word forms
blinds, blinded, blinder, blindly, blindest, blinding, blindless, blindness
Words from these letters
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