blind

1. Unable to see (synset 302166241)
   "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"
   similar to:

   • blinded - deprived of sight
   • blindfold, blindfolded - wearing a blindfold
   • color-blind, colour-blind - unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
   • dazzled - having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light
   • deuteranopic, green-blind - inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red
   • dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired - having greatly reduced vision
   • eyeless, sightless, unseeing - lacking sight
   • protanopic, red-blind - inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green
   • snow-blind, snow-blinded - temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice
   • stone-blind - completely blind
   • blue-blind, tritanopic - inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow
   same as: unsighted
2. Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand (synset 301750714)
   "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
   similar to: unperceiving, unperceptive - lacking perception
3. Not based on reason or evidence (synset 301933053)
   "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
   similar to: irrational - not consistent with or using reason
   same as: unreasoning

1. People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group (synset 107960684)
   "he spent hours reading to the blind"
   is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
   member holonym: blind person - a person with a severe visual impairment
2. A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) (synset 102854643)
   "he waited impatiently in the blind"
   is a type of: concealment, cover, covert, screen - a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
3. A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight (synset 102854358)
   "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
   is a type of: protection, protective cover, protective covering - a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
   subtypes:

   • curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
   • shutter - a hinged blind for a window
   • window blind - a blind for privacy or to keep out light
   • blinder, blinker, winker - blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side
   same as: screen
4. Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity (synset 106773219)
   "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
   is a type of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation - a misleading falsehood
   same as: subterfuge

1. Render unable to see (synset 202172999)
   subtypes:

   • bedazzle, daze, dazzle - to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
   • seel - sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons
   • snow-blind - affect with snow blindness
2. Make blind by putting the eyes out (synset 202172638)
   "The criminals were punished and blinded"
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   subtypes: abacinate - blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes
3. Make dim by comparison or conceal (synset 200313060)
   is a type of: darken - make dark or darker
   same as: dim

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