Blind
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
A blindage. See Blindage.
A halting place.
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Blind Quotations
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
Blind Translations
blind in Afrikaans is blind
blind in Danish is blind person, blind
blind in Dutch is blind
blind in Finnish is sokea
blind in French is aveugle
blind in German is blenden, blind, blind
blind in Italian is cieco
blind in Latin is caecus
blind in Norwegian is blind
blind in Portuguese is cortina, cego
blind in Spanish is deslumbrar, ciego, persiana
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