BLIND

BLIND 1 syllable

B1 · Intermediate 📏 5 letters 🎲 Scrabble 8 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
  2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
  3. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
  4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

💬 Examples

  • "he spent hours reading to the blind"
  • "he waited impatiently in the blind"
  • "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
  • "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"

🔗 Similar words

screensubterfuge
verb
  1. render unable to see
  2. make blind by putting the eyes out
  3. make dim by comparison or conceal

💬 Examples

  • "The criminals were punished and blinded"

🔗 Similar words

dim
adjective
  1. unable to see
  2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
  3. not based on reason or evidence

💬 Examples

  • "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"
  • "blind to a lover's faults"
  • "blind to the consequences of their actions"
  • "blind hatred"

🔗 Similar words

unsightedunreasoning
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