| blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement, all the clues led the police into blind alleys, so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
blind flying
blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
| blind stitching | stitching that is not easily seen or noticed |
| double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
amphiuma
congo snake
congo eel
blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
blind snake
worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
blind
screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
| blind | a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters), he waited impatiently in the blind |
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
| blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
blind curve
blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
| roller blind | a window shade that rolls up out of the way |
| Venetian blind | a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed |
| window blind | a blind for privacy or to keep out light |
blind spot
optic disc
optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
cecum
caecum
blind gut | the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens, the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum |
| blind spot | a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment, golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it |
subterfuge
blind | 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 |
| blind | people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group, he spent hours reading to the blind |
| blind date | a date with a stranger, she never goes on blind dates |
| blind side | the side on which your vision is limited or obstructed |
| color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
| blind date | a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them) |
| blind person | a person with a severe visual impairment |
closed gentian blind gentian bottle gentian
Gentiana andrewsii | gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
| closed gentian blind gentian Gentiana clausa | similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers |
| blind trust | a trust that enables a person to avoid possible conflict of interest by transferring assets to a fiduciary, the person establishing the trust gives up the right to information about the assets |
staggers
blind staggers | a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle, characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling |
| blind dim | make dim by comparison or conceal |
| turn a blind eye | refuse to acknowledge, He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office |
| fly blind | fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments |
| blind | make blind by putting the eyes out, The criminals were punished and blinded |
| blind | render unable to see |
| snow-blind | affect with snow blindness, the glare of the sun snow-blinded her |
color-blind
colour-blind
nonracist | unprejudiced about race |
s besotted
blind drunk blotto
crocked
cockeyed
fuddled
loaded
pie-eyed
pissed
pixilated
plastered
slopped
sloshed
smashed
soaked
soused
sozzled
squiffy
stiff
tight
wet | very drunk |
| blind | unable or unwilling to perceive or understand, blind to a lover's faults, blind to the consequences of their actions |
blind
unreasoning | not based on reason or evidence, blind hatred, blind faith, unreasoning panic |
blind
unsighted | 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 |
color-blind
colour-blind | unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors |
deuteranopic
green-blind | inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red |
dim-sighted
near-blind
purblind
sand-blind
visually impaired
visually challenged | having greatly reduced vision |
protanopic
red-blind | inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green |
snow-blind
snow-blinded | temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice |
| stone-blind | completely blind |
tritanopic
blue-blind | inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow |
alexic
word-blind | of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia |