blind
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,375 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,381 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group he spent hours reading to the blind
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) he waited impatiently in the blind
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight also: screen they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity also: subterfuge he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfugethe holding company was just a blind
adjective
- unable to see also: unsighted 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
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand blind to a lover's faultsblind to the consequences of their actions
- not based on reason or evidence also: unreasoning blind hatredblind faith
verb
- render unable to see
blind in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Nicodemus at Night V. Blind Bartimeus VI.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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He could not have taken steps better calculated to exalt still more Mme. Favoral’s blind tenderness.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature--the most of them, in fact!
A Double Barrelled Detective Story · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Three Blind Mice was the only nursery song he could remember, and he sang it over and over again.
Where the Blue Begins · Christopher Morley · Chapter 1
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Our own success is due to our indomitable energy and other deserving traits; that of others largely to blind luck.
Crankisms · Lisle de Vaux Matthewman · Chapter 1