Synonyms for blind
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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

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1. blind

   Synonyms:
   sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced, uninformed, unconscious, unaware

   Antonyms:
   farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted, pure-minded, aware, conscious

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Darken
   • People
   • Protective Covering
   • Screen

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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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1. blindadjective

   Synonyms:
   unseeing, sightless, purblind, oblivious, undiscriminating, inconsiderate, unmindful, unintelligible, illegible, obscure, intricate, involved

2. blindnoun

   Synonyms:
   shade, curtain, screen, blinder, blinker, subterfuge, pretext, ruse, stratagem, pretense, feint sophistry

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1. List of paraphrases for "blind":

   indiscriminate, wanton, blindly, blinds, acorn, ciego, bllnd, blinded, sunshade, blinkered, mindless, random, short-sighted

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1. Michelangelo:

   What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?

2. Jewel Shuping:

   I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth.

3. Jordan Kahn:

   There has been a lot of blind faith, there are areas where there has been a lot of speculation and there will be pain there.

4. Chris Cabrera:

   We have a lot of agents quarantined right now, which adds to our problem, on top of agents who are sick with COVID, so we’re concerned about catching it ourselves, we’re concerned about our families and coworkers and it just seems everyone's turning a blind eye to it when we have a real situation down here.

5. Karl Marx:

   Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.