BLIND
What does "BLIND" mean?
Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight.
Meanings
- Without the ability to see. He has been blind since birth.
- Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand something. She was blind to his faults. figurative
- Done without seeing, knowledge, or guidance. It was a blind guess.
- A screen or shade for a window. She lowered the blinds against the glare.
- To deprive of sight, or to overwhelm the judgment of. The headlights blinded her for a second.
Did you know?
- Louis Braille was blinded by an accident as a small child and, by age 20, had published the raised-dot alphabet that still lets blind readers feel words off a page.
Word origin
From Old English 'blind', from Proto-Germanic '*blindaz'; the root is thought to connect to ideas of being 'clouded' or 'made murky', linking it distantly to 'blend' — the sense of things mixed and indistinct.
Remember it
BLIND contains 'I' but can't use it — the eye ('I') in the middle is the one that cannot see.
A little poem
Hands learn the doorway-
what the eyes called dark, the palms
read line by warm line.
haiku
Wordplay
- I made a blind guess about the window covering and somehow nailed it.
What it teaches
The most dangerous blindness is the kind with working eyes - we miss most what we refuse to look at.
Quick facts
What does BLIND mean?
Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight.
Is BLIND a valid word?
Yes — BLIND is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BLIND?
BLIND has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BLIND come from?
From Old English 'blind', from Proto-Germanic '*blindaz'; the root is thought to connect to ideas of being 'clouded' or 'made murky', linking it distantly to 'blend' — the sense of things mixed and indistinct.
What can BLIND teach us?
The most dangerous blindness is the kind with working eyes - we miss most what we refuse to look at.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.