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Synonyms for blind
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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blind

    A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

    E'en children followed with endearing wile.

    Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

    A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

    Synonyms:
    art, artifice, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

    Antonyms:
    artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. blindnoun

    people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

    "he spent hours reading to the blind"

    Synonyms:
    subterfuge, screen

    Antonyms:
    sighted, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, seeing, quick-sighted, argus-eyed, perceptive, rational, keen-sighted, sharp-eyed

  2. blindnoun

    a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)

    "he waited impatiently in the blind"

    Synonyms:
    subterfuge, screen

    Antonyms:
    seeing, quick-sighted, rational, sighted, sharp-eyed, perceptive, clear-sighted, argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, sharp-sighted

  3. blind, screennoun

    a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

    "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

    Synonyms:
    cover, silver screen, screenland, filmdom, subterfuge, covert, sieve, screen door, projection screen, screen, concealment

    Antonyms:
    sharp-eyed, seeing, keen-sighted, quick-sighted, argus-eyed, perceptive, rational, sharp-sighted, clear-sighted, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, sighted

  4. subterfuge, blindadjective

    something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

    "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

    Synonyms:
    subterfuge, screen

    Antonyms:
    seeing, argus-eyed, sighted, clear-sighted, quick-sighted, rational, perceptive, sharp-sighted, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-sighted, sharp-eyed

  5. blind, unsightedadjective

    unable to see

    "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

    Synonyms:
    unsighted, unreasoning

    Antonyms:
    hawk-eyed, sharp-eyed, argus-eyed, sighted, keen-sighted, perceptive, lynx-eyed, seeing, quick-sighted, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted, rational

  6. blindadjective

    unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

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

    Synonyms:
    unsighted, unreasoning

    Antonyms:
    lynx-eyed, hawk-eyed, perceptive, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, seeing, keen-sighted, clear-sighted, sighted, rational, sharp-eyed, argus-eyed

  7. blind, unreasoningverb

    not based on reason or evidence

    "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

    Synonyms:
    unsighted, unreasoning

    Antonyms:
    lynx-eyed, sharp-eyed, seeing, sharp-sighted, rational, perceptive, hawk-eyed, sighted, keen-sighted, clear-sighted, quick-sighted, argus-eyed

  8. blindverb

    render unable to see

    Synonyms:
    dim

    Antonyms:
    hawk-eyed, quick-sighted, lynx-eyed, rational, sharp-sighted, keen-sighted, perceptive, sharp-eyed, sighted, seeing, argus-eyed, clear-sighted

  9. blindverb

    make blind by putting the eyes out

    "The criminals were punished and blinded"

    Synonyms:
    dim

    Antonyms:
    quick-sighted, hawk-eyed, perceptive, lynx-eyed, sharp-sighted, rational, keen-sighted, sighted, argus-eyed, sharp-eyed, clear-sighted, seeing

  10. blind, dimverb

    make dim by comparison or conceal

    Synonyms:
    slur, blur, dim, dip

    Antonyms:
    sharp-eyed, seeing, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, lynx-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, sighted, argus-eyed, rational, clear-sighted, perceptive

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blindadjective

    Synonyms:
    sightless, eyeless, unseeing, stone-blind, stark-blind, unable to see

  2. blindadjective

    Synonyms:
    ignorant, undiscerning, unaware, unmindful, inattentive, heedless, incapable of judging

  3. blindverb

    Synonyms:
    make blind, deprive of sight

  4. blindverb

    Synonyms:
    hoodwink, blindfold

  5. blindnoun

    Synonyms:
    screen, cover

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How to use blind in a sentence?

  1. Bryce Weiler:

    He changed my life, giving me the opportunity to experience college basketball, be part of a team, and to really be able to do things I’d dreamed of doing, i never thought I’d be able to experience college basketball being blind, but for four years I was able to do that.

  2. Justin Broomhall:

    His eyes were already starting to turn hazy, like he was going blind.

  3. Hector Fiore:

    We want a democracy in which the justice system is blind, independent and not inclined toward any one group.

  4. Premier Rachel Notley:

    Ignoring climate change is a blind alley for both the energy business, and for the province of Alberta.

  5. Edwin Markham:

    We all are blind until we seeThat in the human planNothing is worth the making ifIt does not make the man. Why build these cities gloriousIf man unbuilded goes?In vain we build the world, unlessThe builder also grows.


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    An antonym of "spellbound"
    A transfixed
    B mesmerized
    C fascinated
    D disenchanted

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