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Sounds | blay'nd |
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Rhymes | aligned, assigned, behind, and 39 more rhymes in aynd at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Unable to see. |
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Synonyms | unsighted |
Similar | blinded; blindfold, blindfolded; color-blind, colour-blind; dazzled; deuteranopic, green-blind; dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged; eyeless, sightless, unseeing; protanopic, red-blind; snow-blind, snow-blinded; stone-blind; tritanopic, blue-blind |
Contrary | sighted |
Adverbs | blindly |
Meaning | Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand. |
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Examples | "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions" |
Similar to | unperceptive, unperceiving |
Meaning | Not based on reason or evidence. |
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Examples | "blind hatred"; "blind faith" |
Synonyms | unreasoning |
Similar to | irrational |
Adverbs | blindly |
Meaning | People who have severe visual impairments. |
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Examples | "he spent hours reading to the blind" |
Members | blind person, blind man |
Broader | people |
Verbs | blind; blind |
Meaning | A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters). |
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Examples | "he waited impatiently in the blind" |
Broader | screen, cover, covert, concealment |
Meaning | Something that keeps things out or hinders sight. |
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Examples | "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" |
Synonyms | screen |
Narrower | curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall; shutter; window blind; winker, blinker, blinder |
Broader | protective covering, protective cover, protection |
Meaning | Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity. |
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Examples | "the holding company was just a blind" |
Synonyms | subterfuge |
Broader | misrepresentation, deceit, deception |
Meaning | Render unable to see. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Narrower | dazzle, bedazzle, daze; seel; snow-blind |
Nouns | blinder; blind |
Meaning | Make blind by putting the eyes out. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "The criminals were punished and blinded" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Nouns | blind |
Meaning | Make dim by comparison or conceal. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | dim |
Broader | darken |