Antonyms 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.

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

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

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1. blind

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

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. blindnoun

   people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

   "he spent hours reading to the blind"

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

   Synonyms:
   subterfuge, screen

2. blindnoun

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

   "he waited impatiently in the blind"

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

   Synonyms:
   subterfuge, screen

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"

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

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

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"

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

   Synonyms:
   subterfuge, screen

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

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

   Synonyms:
   unsighted, unreasoning

6. blindadjective

   unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

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

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

   Synonyms:
   unsighted, unreasoning

7. blind, unreasoningverb

   not based on reason or evidence

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

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

   Synonyms:
   unsighted, unreasoning

8. blindverb

   render unable to see

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

   Synonyms:
   dim

9. blindverb

   make blind by putting the eyes out

   "The criminals were punished and blinded"

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

   Synonyms:
   dim

10. blind, dimverb

    make dim by comparison or conceal

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

    Synonyms:
    slur, blur, dim, dip

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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

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sighted

   able to see.

   i can see that house! i'm not blind...

   Submitted by JP03 on December 25, 2014  

How to use blind in a sentence?

1. Samantha Salinas:

   I called in to say I'm not coming, it's distressing being pregnant. You always think who's sick around you. What worries me is there's so much unknown. So many people can be carriers and asymptomatic. That's a huge blind spot.

2. Charles de LEUSSE:

   If love is blind, why does it look at us? (Si l'amour est aveugle, Pourquoi nous regarde-t-il ?)

3. George Farquhar:

   When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

4. Rob Astorino:

   It's happening in her state, she's so obsessed with masking two-year-olds and coddling criminals in New York City that she hasn't even uttered a word about this. She completely turns a blind eye, and it's happening and affecting our state.

5. Tom Millar:

   It's a hugely painful way to go blind.

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