blind
About 21.15 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
- adjective Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
- adjective Having little or no visibility.
a blind path
- adjective Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
a blind alley
- adjective Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
a blind wall
- adjective Able to be fixed without access to one end.
a blind rivet
- adjective Smallest or slightest.
I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.
- adjective Without any prior knowledge.
He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
Similar words
sand-blind purblind visually impaired blindfolded excecate dim-sighted blindfold stone-blind sightless eyeless
Often followed by
to and man eye spot in or men faith
Word family
blinded blinder blindest blinding blindingly blindly blindness blindnesses blinds the blind
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