blind

Meaning of blind

noun
  1. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
  2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
  3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
    a duck blind
  4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
  5. A blindage.
  6. A halting place.
  7. The blindside.
  8. (1800s) No score.
  9. A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
    The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.
  10. A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
    The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.
  11. (as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
verb
  1. To make temporarily or permanently blind.
    Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
  2. To curse.
  3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
  4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
adjective
  1. (of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  2. (of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  3. Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
    Authors are blind to their own defects.
  4. Of a place, having little or no visibility.
    a blind corner
  5. Closed at one end; having a dead end
    a blind gut
  6. Having no openings for light or passage.
    a blind alley
  7. (in certain phrases) Smallest or slightest.
    I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
  8. Without any prior knowledge.
    He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
  9. Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
    blind deference
  10. Unintelligible or illegible.
    a blind passage in a book; blind writing
  11. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
    blind buds
adverb
  1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
  2. Absolutely, totally.
    to swear blind
  3. (three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

Information about blind

Hyphenation of blind

blind

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • blind is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

blind synonyms

Meaning unsighted:

unsighted

Meaning unreasoning:

unreasoning

Meaning screen:

screen

Meaning subterfuge:

subterfuge

Meaning dim:

dim

blind antonyms

Meaning :

seeing, sighted

Translation of blind

Words that rhyme with blind

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