Standard Lemma guide

blind

adj · adv · name · noun · verb · 43 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈblaɪ̯nd/
  • [ˈblaɪ̯nd]
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  • General-South-African, Southern-US: /ˈblaːnd/
  • General-South-African, Southern-US: [ˈblaːnd]
  • rhymes with -aɪnd
  • CMU ARPABET: B L AY1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
  • Braille is a writing system for the blind.
  • his blind eye

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sightless

Antonyms: seeing, sighted

2

adj

Meaning 2

Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: comparable

Examples

  • The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
  • Authors are blind to their own defects.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Having little or no visibility.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a blind path
  • a blind ditch
  • a blind corner

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a blind alley
  • a blind fistula
  • a blind gut

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a blind wall
  • a blind alley

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Able to be fixed without access to one end.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: arts, business, construction, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • a blind rivet

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

Smallest or slightest.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-certain-phrases

Examples

  • I shouted, but he didn’t take a blind bit of notice.
  • We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

Without any prior knowledge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
  • I went into the meeting totally blind, so I really didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • blind deference
  • blind justice
  • blind punishment
  • 1787–1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

adj

Meaning 10

Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: sciences

Examples

  • a blind trial

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

adj

Meaning 11

Unintelligible or illegible.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a blind passage in a book; blind writing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

adj

Meaning 12

not having a well-defined head.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

adj

Meaning 13

Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle

Examples

  • blind buds
  • blind flowers

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

adj

Meaning 14

Uncircumcised.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: dated LGBTQ slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

adv

Meaning 15

Without seeing; unseeingly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

adv

Meaning 16

Absolutely, totally.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

Examples

  • to swear blind

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

adv

Meaning 17

Without looking at the cards dealt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: three card brag

Topics: card-games, poker

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

adv

Meaning 18

As a pastry case only, without any filling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: especially, in-compounds

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

Examples

  • Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

name

Meaning 19

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: roller blind, Venetian blind

21

noun

Meaning 21

A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

noun

Meaning 22

A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a duck blind
  • Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

noun

Meaning 23

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

noun

Meaning 24

A blindage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: government, military, politics, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

noun

Meaning 25

A hiding place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

26

noun

Meaning 26

The blindside.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

27

noun

Meaning 27

No score.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

28

noun

Meaning 28

A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: card-games, poker

Examples

  • The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

29

noun

Meaning 29

A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: card-games, poker

Examples

  • The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

30

verb

Meaning 30

To make temporarily or permanently blind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
  • Don’t wave that pencil in my face—do you want to blind me?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

31

verb

Meaning 31

To curse, swear, use foul language

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Qualifier: obsolete except when paired; especially eff and blind; obsolete except when paired; especially eff and blind

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

32

verb

Meaning 32

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

33

verb

Meaning 33

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

34

adjective

Meaning 34

unable to see--Kenneth Jernigan

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unsighted

Antonyms: sighted

35

adjective satellite

Meaning 35

unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

36

adjective satellite

Meaning 36

not based on reason or evidence

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • blind hatred
  • blind faith
  • unreasoning panic

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unreasoning

Antonyms: none provided

37

noun

Meaning 37

a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: screen

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: protective covering, protective cover, protection

Narrower terms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall, shutter, window blind, winker, blinker, blinder

38

noun

Meaning 38

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he waited impatiently in the blind

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: screen, cover, covert, concealment

39

noun

Meaning 39

something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: subterfuge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: misrepresentation, deceit, deception

40

noun

Meaning 40

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he spent hours reading to the blind

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: people

41

verb

Meaning 41

make dim by comparison or conceal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dim

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: darken

42

verb

Meaning 42

make blind by putting the eyes out

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The criminals were punished and blinded

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: change, alter, modify

Narrower terms: abacinate

43

verb

Meaning 43

render unable to see

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: dazzle, bedazzle, daze, seel, snow-blind

History

Etymology

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.

English, German, and Jewish/Yiddish surname, all related to the adjective blind.

Across languages

Translations

467 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: blind — unable to see
  • Albanian: i verbër — unable to see
  • Southern Altai: сокор (sokor) — unable to see
  • Southern Altai: кӧзи кӧрбӧс (közi körbös) — unable to see
  • Southern Altai: кӧс јок (kös ǰok) — unable to see
  • Southern Altai: согыр (sogïr) — unable to see
  • Arabic: أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā) — unable to see
  • Arabic: عَمْيَاء (ʕamyāʔ) — unable to see
  • Arabic: كَفِيف (kafīf) — unable to see
  • Arabic: أعمى (ʔáʕma) — unable to see
  • Arabic: عميا (ʕámya) — unable to see
  • Arabic: عمى (ʕomy) — unable to see
  • Arabic: مكفوف (makfūf) — unable to see
  • Arabic: مكفوفة (makfūfa) — unable to see
  • Arabic: مكفوفين (makfufīn) — unable to see
  • Archi: бецду (becdu) — unable to see
  • 'Are'are: 'uru — unable to see
  • Armenian: կույր (kuyr) — unable to see
  • Aromanian: orbu — unable to see
  • Asturian: ciegu — unable to see
  • Avar: бецав (becaw) — unable to see
  • Azerbaijani: kor — unable to see
  • Baluchi: کور (kor) — unable to see
  • Bashkir: һуҡыр (huqır) — unable to see
  • Basque: itsu — unable to see
  • Belarusian: сляпы́ (sljapý) — unable to see
  • Bengali: অন্ধ (ondho) — unable to see
  • Central Bikol: buta — unable to see
  • Breton: dall — unable to see
  • Buginese: wuta — unable to see
  • Bulgarian: сляп (sljap) — unable to see
  • Burmese: ကန်း (kan:) — unable to see
  • Buryat: һохор (hoxor) — unable to see
  • Catalan: cec — unable to see
  • Catalan: orb — unable to see
  • Cebuano: buta — unable to see
  • Chamicuro: manatsa — unable to see
  • Chavacano: ciego — unable to see
  • Chechen: бӏаьрзе (bˀärze) — unable to see
  • Cherokee: ᏗᎨᏫ (digewi) — unable to see
  • Chinese Cantonese: 盲 (maang4) — unable to see
  • Chinese Cantonese: 失明 (sat1 ming4) — unable to see
  • Chinese: ха (ha) — unable to see
  • Chinese: хазы (hazɨ) — unable to see
  • Hakka Chinese: 瞎目 (hat-muk) — unable to see
  • Chinese: 青盲 (chhen-mê, chhin-mî) — unable to see
  • Chinese: 失明 (sit-bêng) — unable to see
  • Chinese Mandarin: 盲 (máng) — unable to see
  • Chinese Mandarin: 盲目 (mángmù) — unable to see
  • Chinese Mandarin: 失明 (shīmíng) — unable to see
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瞎 (xiā) — unable to see
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瞽 (gǔ) — unable to see
  • Chuvash: суккӑр (sukkăr) — unable to see
  • Chuvash: куҫсӑр (kuśsăr) — unable to see
  • Cornish: dall — unable to see
  • Crimean Tatar: soqur — unable to see
  • Crimean Tatar: kör — unable to see
  • Czech: slepý — unable to see
  • Dalmatian: vuarb — unable to see
  • Dalmatian: uarb — unable to see
  • Danish: blind — unable to see
  • Dutch: blind — unable to see
  • Elfdalian: blind — unable to see
  • Esperanto: blinda — unable to see
  • Estonian: pime — unable to see
  • Faroese: blindur — unable to see
  • Finnish: sokea — unable to see
  • Franco-Provençal: avoglo — unable to see
  • French: aveugle — unable to see
  • French: mal-voyant — unable to see
  • French: mal-voyante — unable to see
  • West-Frisian: blyn — unable to see
  • Friulian: vuarb — unable to see
  • Gagauz: köör — unable to see
  • Gagauz: görmäz — unable to see
  • Gagauz: gözsüz — unable to see
  • Galician: cego — unable to see
  • Galician: invidente — unable to see
  • Georgian: ბრმა (brma) — unable to see
  • Georgian: უსინათლო (usinatlo) — unable to see
  • German: blind — unable to see
  • Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (blinds) — unable to see
  • Greek: τυφλός (tyflós) — unable to see
  • Greek: αόμματος (aómmatos) — unable to see
  • Ancient Greek: τυφλός (tuphlós) — unable to see
  • Ancient Greek: ἀλαός (alaós) — unable to see
  • Greenlandic: tappiitsoq — unable to see
  • Hebrew: עיוור — unable to see
  • Hebrew: עִוֵּר (ivér) — unable to see
  • Higaonon: buta — unable to see
  • Hiligaynon: buta — unable to see
  • Hindi: अंधा (andhā) — unable to see
  • Hindi: नेत्रहीन (netrahīn) — unable to see
  • Hindi: दृष्टिहीन (dŕṣṭihīn) — unable to see
  • White Hmong: dig muag — unable to see
  • Hungarian: vak — unable to see
  • Icelandic: blindur — unable to see
  • Ido: blinda — unable to see
  • Ilocano: bulsek — unable to see
  • Indonesian: buta — unable to see
  • Interlingua: cec — unable to see
  • Iranun: buta — unable to see
  • Irish: dall — unable to see
  • Istriot: uorbo — unable to see
  • Italian: cieco — unable to see
  • Italian: orbo — unable to see
  • Ivatan: mavota — unable to see
  • Japanese: 失明した (shitsumei shita) — unable to see
  • Japanese: 目の見えない (me no mienai) — unable to see
  • Japanese: 盲目の (mōmoku no) — unable to see
  • Japanese: 盲 (mekura) — unable to see
  • Javanese: picek — unable to see
  • Old Javanese: wuta — unable to see
  • Jeju: 눈멀다 (nunmeolda) — unable to see
  • Kalmyk: сохр (soxr) — unable to see
  • Karachay-Balkar: сокъур (soqur) — unable to see
  • Karakalpak: гөр (gör) — unable to see
  • Karakalpak: соқыр (soqyr) — unable to see
  • Kashmiri: اۆن (on) — unable to see
  • Kazakh: соқыр (soqyr) — unable to see
  • Khakas: харах чох (xarax çox) — unable to see
  • Khmer: ខ្វាក់ (khvak) — unable to see
  • Komi-Permyak: синтӧм (śintöm) — unable to see
  • Komi-Zyrian: синтӧм (śintöm) — unable to see
  • Korean: 눈멀다 (nunmeolda) — unable to see
  • Central Kurdish: کوێر (kwêr) — unable to see
  • Northern Kurdish: kor — unable to see
  • Kyrgyz: сокур (sokur) — unable to see
  • Kyrgyz: көр (kör) — unable to see
  • Lao: ບອດ (bǭt) — unable to see
  • Latgalian: oklys — unable to see
  • Latin: caecus — unable to see
  • Latvian: akls — unable to see
  • Latvian: neredzīgs — unable to see
  • Limburgish: blindj — unable to see
  • Lithuanian: ãklas — unable to see
  • Low German: blind — unable to see
  • Luxembourgish: blann — unable to see
  • Macedonian: слеп (slep) — unable to see
  • Makasar: buta — unable to see
  • Malay: buta — unable to see
  • Malay: tunanetra — unable to see
  • Maltese: agħma — unable to see
  • Maltese: agħmi — unable to see
  • Manchu: ᠪᠠᠯᡠ (balu) — unable to see
  • Mansaka: pisuk — unable to see
  • Māori: pura — unable to see
  • Maranao: pisek — unable to see
  • Maranao: bota — unable to see
  • Eastern Mari: сокыр (sokyr) — unable to see
  • Eastern Mari: уждымо (uždymo) — unable to see
  • Western Mari: слӧпӧй (slöpöj) — unable to see
  • Western Mari: сльӧпӧй (sĺöpöj) — unable to see
  • Mauritian Creole: aveg — unable to see
  • Mongolian: сохор (soxor) — unable to see
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠬᠤᠷ (soqur) — unable to see
  • Nanai: бали (bali) — unable to see
  • Norman: aveugl'ye — unable to see
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blind — unable to see
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blind — unable to see
  • Occitan: òrb — unable to see
  • Occitan: cèc — unable to see
  • Odia: ଅନ୍ଧ (andha) — unable to see
  • Church Slavic: слѣпъ (slěpŭ) — unable to see
  • Old East Slavic: слѣпъ (slěpŭ) — unable to see
  • Old English: blind — unable to see
  • Oromo: jaamaa — unable to see
  • Ossetian: куырм — unable to see
  • Pashto: ړوند (ṛund) — unable to see
  • Pashto: نابينا (nābinã) — unable to see
  • Pashto: نګوری (ngóray) — unable to see
  • Persian: کور (kur) — unable to see
  • Persian: نابینا (nâbinâ) — unable to see
  • Persian: مکفوفالبصر (makfuf-ol-basar) — unable to see
  • Piedmontese: orbo — unable to see
  • Plautdietsch: blint — unable to see
  • Polish: ślepy — unable to see
  • Polish: niewidomy — unable to see
  • Portuguese: cego — unable to see
  • Punjabi: اَنّھا (annhā) — unable to see
  • Quechua: ñawsa — unable to see
  • Quechua: ñausa — unable to see
  • Quechua: gapra — unable to see
  • Quechua: gapla — unable to see
  • Romagnol: cig — unable to see
  • Romanian: orb — unable to see
  • Romanian: chior — unable to see
  • Romansh: tschorv — unable to see
  • Romansh: orv — unable to see
  • Romansh: orb — unable to see
  • Russian: слепо́й (slepój) — unable to see
  • Russian: незря́чий (nezrjáčij) — unable to see
  • Northern Sami: čalmmeheapme — unable to see
  • Sanskrit: अन्ध (andha) — unable to see
  • Sardinian: tzecu — unable to see
  • Sardinian: cegu — unable to see
  • Sardinian: tzegu — unable to see
  • Scottish Gaelic: dall — unable to see
  • Serbo-Croatian: слеп — unable to see
  • Serbo-Croatian: слијеп — unable to see
  • Serbo-Croatian: slep — unable to see
  • Serbo-Croatian: slijep — unable to see
  • Sicilian: orvu — unable to see
  • Sicilian: orbu — unable to see
  • Sindhi: انڌو (andho) — unable to see
  • Slovak: slepý — unable to see
  • Slovene: slep — unable to see
  • Lower Sorbian: slěpy — unable to see
  • Upper Sorbian: slepy — unable to see
  • Spanish: ciego — unable to see
  • Spanish: invidente — unable to see
  • Swahili: kipofu — unable to see
  • Swedish: blind — unable to see
  • Swedish: synskadad — unable to see
  • Tagalog: bulag — unable to see
  • Tajik: кӯр (kür) — unable to see
  • Tajik: нобино (nobino) — unable to see
  • Tajik: макфуфулбасар (makfufulbasar) — unable to see
  • Talysh: ku — unable to see
  • Tamil: குருடு (kuruṭu) — unable to see
  • Tat: kur — unable to see
  • Tausug: buta — unable to see
  • Tày: bót — unable to see
  • Telugu: గుడ్డి (guḍḍi) — unable to see
  • Thai: ตาบอด (dtaa-bɔ̀ɔt) — unable to see
  • Thai: บอด (bɔ̀ɔt) — unable to see
  • Tlingit: lkhooshtéeni — unable to see
  • Tocharian B: tärrek — unable to see
  • Turkish: kör — unable to see
  • Turkish: görme engelli — unable to see
  • Turkish: görmez — unable to see
  • Turkish: âmâ — unable to see
  • Turkish: gözsüz — unable to see
  • Ottoman Turkish: كور (kör) — unable to see
  • Ottoman Turkish: اعمی (ama) — unable to see
  • Turkmen: kör — unable to see
  • Tuvan: согур (sogur) — unable to see
  • Udmurt: сукыр (sukyr) — unable to see
  • Udmurt: синтэм (śintem) — unable to see
  • Ukrainian: сліпи́й (slipýj) — unable to see
  • Urdu: اندھا (andhā) — unable to see
  • Uyghur: كور (kor) — unable to see
  • Uzbek: koʻr — unable to see
  • Venetan: orbo — unable to see
  • Venetan: cioro — unable to see
  • Venetan: ciore — unable to see
  • Vietnamese: mù — unable to see
  • Vietnamese: đui mù — unable to see
  • Vietnamese: đui — unable to see
  • Volapük: bleinik — unable to see
  • Waray-Waray: butá — unable to see
  • Warlpiri: pampa — unable to see
  • Welsh: dall — unable to see
  • Yiddish: בלינד (blind) — unable to see
  • Yoruba: fọ́jú — unable to see
  • Zazaki: kor (diq) — unable to see
  • Zhuang: mengz — unable to see
  • Zhuang: fangz — unable to see
  • Asturian: ciegu — failing to see
  • Catalan: cec — failing to see
  • Finnish: sokea — failing to see
  • Galician: cego — failing to see
  • German: blind — failing to see
  • German: unkritisch — failing to see
  • German: ignorant — failing to see
  • Portuguese: cego — failing to see
  • Spanish: ciego — failing to see
  • Ottoman Turkish: كور (kör) — failing to see
  • Finnish: sokko — having little or no visibility
  • Slovene: nepregleden — having little or no visibility
  • Finnish: umpi- — closed at one end
  • Greek: αδιέξοδος (adiéxodos) — closed at one end
  • Irish: caoch — closed at one end
  • Turkish: kör — closed at one end
  • Welsh: pengaead — closed at one end
  • Finnish: umpinainen — having no openings for light or passage
  • Irish: caoch — having no openings for light or passage
  • Russian: глухо́й (gluxój) — having no openings for light or passage
  • Turkish: kör — having no openings for light or passage
  • Finnish: vähintäkään — smallest or slightest
  • Finnish: pienintäkään — smallest or slightest
  • Finnish: puhdas — without any prior knowledge
  • Polish: w ciemno — without any prior knowledge
  • Polish: na ślepo — without any prior knowledge
  • Portuguese: às cegas — without any prior knowledge
  • Russian: вслепу́ю (vslepúju) — without any prior knowledge
  • Finnish: sokea — unconditional; without regard to evidence
  • German: blind — unconditional; without regard to evidence
  • Japanese: 無条件の (mujōken no) — unconditional; without regard to evidence
  • Finnish: käsittämätön — unintelligible or illegible
  • Greek: δυσανάγνωστος (dysanágnostos) — unintelligible or illegible
  • Russian: пусто́й (pustój) — horticulture: failing to produce flowers or fruit
  • Asturian: ciego — without seeing
  • Asturian: ciegamente — without seeing
  • Basque: itsu — without seeing
  • Finnish: sokeasti — without seeing
  • Finnish: sokkona — without seeing
  • German: blind — without seeing
  • Greek: τυφλά (tyflá) — without seeing
  • Italian: ciecamente — without seeing
  • Russian: вслепу́ю (vslepúju) — without seeing
  • Spanish: ciegamente — without seeing
  • Finnish: sokkona — without looking at the cards
  • Amharic: መጋረጃ (mägaräǧa) — covering for a window
  • Asturian: persiana — covering for a window
  • Belarusian: што́ра (štóra) — covering for a window
  • Belarusian: жалюзі́ (žaljuzí) — covering for a window
  • Bulgarian: щори (štori) — covering for a window
  • Bulgarian: жалузи (žaluzi) — covering for a window
  • Catalan: persiana — covering for a window
  • Chinese Mandarin: 簾 /帘 (lián) — covering for a window
  • Chinese Mandarin: 簾子 /帘子 (liánzi) — covering for a window
  • Danish: gardin — covering for a window
  • Danish: rullegardin — covering for a window
  • Danish: persienne — covering for a window
  • Dutch: blind — covering for a window
  • Finnish: verho — covering for a window
  • Finnish: rullaverho — covering for a window
  • Finnish: sälekaihdin — covering for a window
  • Finnish: markiisi — covering for a window
  • French: store — covering for a window
  • Galician: persiana — covering for a window
  • Georgian: ჟალუზი (žaluzi) — covering for a window
  • Georgian: დარაბა (daraba) — covering for a window
  • German: Jalousie — covering for a window
  • German: Rouleau — covering for a window
  • German: Rollo — covering for a window
  • German: Rollladen — covering for a window
  • Greek: γρίλλια (gríllia) — covering for a window
  • Greek: σκιάδιο (skiádio) — covering for a window
  • Hebrew: תריס (tris) — covering for a window
  • Hebrew: צִלּוֹן (tzilón) — covering for a window
  • Hindi: चिक़ (ciq) — covering for a window
  • Irish: dallóg — covering for a window
  • Irish: dallóg fuinneoige — covering for a window
  • Italian: tenda — covering for a window
  • Japanese: ブラインド (buraindo) — covering for a window
  • Korean: 블라인드 (beullaindeu) — covering for a window
  • Lao: ມ່ານ (mān) — covering for a window
  • Lao: ສູດ (sūt) — covering for a window
  • Occitan: persiana — covering for a window
  • Occitan: gelosiá — covering for a window
  • Persian: پرده کرکره (parde kerkere) — covering for a window
  • Polish: zasłona — covering for a window
  • Portuguese: persiana — covering for a window
  • Portuguese: estore — covering for a window
  • Romanian: oblon — covering for a window
  • Romanian: jaluzea — covering for a window
  • Russian: што́ры (štóry) — covering for a window
  • Russian: марки́за (markíza) — covering for a window
  • Russian: жалюзи́ (žaljuzí) — covering for a window
  • Russian: ставни (stavni) — covering for a window
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgàile — covering for a window
  • Spanish: celosía — covering for a window
  • Spanish: persiana — covering for a window
  • Swedish: rullgardin — covering for a window
  • Swedish: gardin — covering for a window
  • Swedish: persienn — covering for a window
  • Swedish: jalousi — covering for a window
  • Swedish: markis (awning) — covering for a window
  • Tagalog: persiyana — covering for a window
  • Ottoman Turkish: پرده (perde) — covering for a window
  • Ukrainian: што́ра (štóra) — covering for a window
  • Ukrainian: фіра́нка (firánka) — covering for a window
  • Ukrainian: жалюзі́ (žaljuzí) — covering for a window
  • Volapük: rulakörten — covering for a window
  • Welsh: blaind — covering for a window
  • Finnish: linjakilpi — destination sign
  • Chinese Mandarin: 盲注 (mángzhù) — forced bet in poker
  • Finnish: sokkopanos — forced bet in poker
  • French: blind — forced bet in poker
  • German: Blind — forced bet in poker
  • Spanish: ciega — forced bet in poker
  • Swedish: mörk — forced bet in poker
  • Western Apache: bidááʼ ádagodini — blind person
  • Asturian: ciegu — blind person
  • Asturian: ciega — blind person
  • Asturian: ciego — blind person
  • Azerbaijani: kor — blind person
  • Azerbaijani: koruş — blind person
  • German: Blinder — blind person
  • German: Blinde — blind person
  • Hindi: अंधा (andhā) — blind person
  • Hindi: दृष्टिहीन (dŕṣṭihīn) — blind person
  • Hindi: नेत्रहीन (netrahīn) — blind person
  • Marathi: आंधळा (āndhḷā) — blind person
  • Marathi: आंधळी (āndhḷī) — blind person
  • Marathi: आंधळे (āndhḷe) — blind person
  • Russian: слепо́й (slepój) — blind person
  • Russian: слепа́я (slepája) — blind person
  • Spanish: ciego — blind person
  • Swahili: kipofu — blind person
  • Arabic: أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Armenian: կուրացնել (kuracʻnel) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Asturian: cegar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Belarusian: сляпі́ць (sljapícʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Belarusian: засляпля́ць (zasljapljácʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Belarusian: засляпі́ць (zasljapícʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Belarusian: асляпля́ць (asljapljácʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Belarusian: асляпі́ць (asljapícʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Bulgarian: ослепя́вам (oslepjávam) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Bulgarian: ослепя́ (oslepjá) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Bulgarian: заслепя́вам (zaslepjávam) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Bulgarian: заслепя́ (zaslepjá) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Catalan: cegar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Czech: oslňovat — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Czech: oslnit — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Czech: oslepit — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Danish: blænde — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Dutch: verblinden — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Dutch: blenden — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Esperanto: blindigi — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Estonian: pimestama — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Finnish: sokaista — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Finnish: sokeuttaa — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • French: aveugler — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Galician: cegar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • German: blenden — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Greek: τυφλώνω (tyflóno) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Hebrew: סִנְוֵר (sinvér) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Hindi: अंधा करना (andhā karnā) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Hungarian: vakít — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Hungarian: megvakít — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ido: blindigar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ingrian: soata — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ingrian: soettaa — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Irish: dall — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Irish: caoch — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Old Irish: cáechaid — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Old Irish: dallaid — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Italian: accecare — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Central Kurdish: کوێر کردن (kwêr kirdin) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Latin: caecō — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Latin: excaeco — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Latin: occaeco — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Latvian: apžilbināt — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Macedonian: заслепува (zaslepuva) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Macedonian: заслепи (zaslepi) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Mansaka: bota — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Māori: whakapohe — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Māori: whakamatapō — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Norman: aveuglier — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blinde — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blende — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Old English: blendan — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Polish: oślepiać — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Polish: oślepić — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Portuguese: cegar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Russian: слепи́ть (slepítʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Russian: ослепля́ть (oslepljátʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Russian: ослепи́ть (oslepítʹ) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Slovak: zaslepiť — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Slovak: oslepiť — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Slovene: oslepiti — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Slovene: zaslepiti — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Spanish: cegar — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Swedish: förblinda — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: сліпи́ти (slipýty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: заслі́плювати (zaslípljuvaty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: засліпля́ти (zaslipljáty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: засліпи́ти (zaslipýty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: ослі́плювати (oslípljuvaty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: осліпля́ти (oslipljáty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Ukrainian: осліпи́ти (oslipýty) — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Volapük: bleinükön — make temporarily or permanently blind
  • Bulgarian: заслепявам (zaslepjavam) — to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal
  • Māori: whakanewhanewha — to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal
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