Definition of blind

"blind" in the noun sense

1. blind

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

"he spent hours reading to the blind"

2. blind

a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters

"he waited impatiently in the blind"

3. blind, screen

a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

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

4. subterfuge, blind

something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

"he wasn't sick

"blind" in the verb sense

1. blind

render unable to see

2. blind

make blind by putting the eyes out

"The criminals were punished and blinded"

3. blind, dim

make dim by comparison or conceal

"blind" in the adjective sense

1. 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"

2. blind

unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

"blind to a lover's faults"

"blind to the consequences of their actions"

3. blind, unreasoning

not based on reason or evidence

"blind hatred"

"blind faith"

"unreasoning panic"

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Quotations for blind

Love is blind. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc.1 ]

Boldness is blind. [ Proverb ]

Blind men must not run. [ Proverb ]

The blind eat many a fly. [ Proverb ]

False love is only blind. [ George Farquhar ]

As wary as a blind horse. [ Proverb ]

Blind zeal only does harm. [ M. G. Lichtwer ]

The blind goddess of fools. [ Chapman ]

Blind zeal can only do harm. [ Lichtwer ]

Who so bold as blind Baynard? [ Proverb ]

Choleric men are blind and mad. [ Proverb ]

Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind. [ Prior ]

Every mote does not blind a man. [ Proverb ]

Blind men's wives need no paint. [ Proverb ]

The blind cave of eternal night. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hatred is blind, as well as love. [ Proverb ]

Better one-eyed than stone-blind. [ Proverb ]

Nature never writes a blind hand. [ T. Starr King ]

Better to be blind than to see ill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hearts are oftener blind than eyes. [ Mubarrad ]

Even a blind man could perceive it. [ Proverb ]

Hastiness is improvident and blind. [ Livy ]

A blind man will be glad to see it. [ Proverb ]

Even as the blind man shot the crow. [ Proverb ]

No horse so blind as the blind mare. [ Proverb ]

Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days;
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed Ways. [ Helen Hunt ]

Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. [ Proverb ]

Being too blind to have desire to see. [ Tennyson ]

Blind men should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

Fear though blind is swift and strong. [ Dr. Mackay ]

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. [ Dryden ]

Though the cat winks, she is not blind. [ Proverb ]

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who is so blind as he that will not see? [ Proverb ]

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. [ William Shakespeare ]

But blind to former as to future fate.
What mortal knows his preexistent state? [ Pope ]

A blind man should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

Oh, say! what is that thing called light,
Which I must never enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy! [ Colley Cibber ]

None so blind as those that will not see. [ Mathew Henry ]

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]

Illusions ruin all those whom they blind. [ E. de Girardin ]

He is very blind who does not see the sun. [ Italian Proverb ]

But love is blind and lovers can not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 6 ]

All authors to their own defects are blind. [ Dryden ]

He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.

If love be blind, love can not hit the mark. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc.1 ]

Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant
Over servile man extends her blind dominion. [ Thomson ]

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

He will not give the way even to a blind man. [ Proverb ]

Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]

The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Ye have a world of light,
When love in the loved rejoices;
But the blind man's home is the house of night.
And its beings are empty voices. [ Bulwer ]

Reason can in general do more than blind force. [ Corn Gallus ]

Love's of a strangely open simple kind,
And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. [ Cowley ]

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

He signifies no more than a blind cat in a barn. [ Proverb ]

What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]

A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man. [ Proverb ]

In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed is king. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself? [ Proverb ]

A bad pilot is like a blind man leading the blind. [ Marcus Clarke ]

Reason can generally effect more than blind force. [ Gallus ]

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. [ Proverb ]

Blessed are the one-eyed among those who are blind. [ Proverb ]

Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. [ Saintine ]

This fellow must have a rare understanding;
For nature recompenseth the defects
Of one part with redundance in another;
Blind men have excellent memories, and the tongue
Thus indisposed, there's treasure in the intellect. [ Shirley ]

It was thus by the glare of false science betrayed,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. [ Beattie ]

Struck blind with beauty! shot with a woman's smile. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Light is light, though the blind man doesn't see it. [ German Proverb ]

Though love is blind, yet it is not for want of eyes. [ Proverb ]

Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. [ Proverb ]

He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none. [ Proverb ]

Will without reason is blind, and against reason is mad. [ Proverb ]

Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind. [ Proverb ]

Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a blind goose that knows not a fox from a fern-bush. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is a beam from heaven that dazzles blind our reason. [ Campbell ]

Envy is blind, and can only disparage the virtues of others. [ Livy ]

Blind fortune treads on the steps of inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance. [ Richard Baxter ]

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]

To know man, borrow the ear of the blind and the eye of the deaf. [ Lavater ]

The world is stupid, the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd. [ Heine ]

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. [ Massinger ]

Love is blind: that is why he always proceeds by the sense of touch.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [ Lucretius ]

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes brings forth seeing children. [ Proverb ]

Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

With most men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. [ Lichtenberg ]

When a blind man flourishes the ancient, woe be unto those that follow him. [ Proverb ]

To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive. [ Aughey ]

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]

That blind, rascally boy that abuses everyone's eyes, because his own are out. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

To discuss an opinion with a fool is like carrying a lantern before a blind man. [ De Gaston ]

The blind monster with uncounted heads, the still discordant, wavering multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing. [ Lichtenberg ]

Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which we hoard is not for ourselves. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them. [ Bovee ]

I am amazed how men can call her blind, when, by the company she keeps, she seems so very discriminating. [ Goldsmith ]

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. [ South ]

Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. [ Seneca ]

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. [ Bacon ]

You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke without convincing us that the fire has existed. [ Junius ]

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, - strong to execute, but blind to perceive. [ Colton ]

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]

With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. [ Lowell ]

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere. [ Epitaph ]

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Emerson ]

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. [ Colton ]

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

blind in Scrabble®

The word blind is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

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Words within the letters of blind

2 letter words in blind (2 words)

3 letter words in blind (6 words)

4 letter words in blind (1 word)

5 letter words in blind (1 word)

blind + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving blind

Shorter words in blind

in

Longer words containing blind

blinded blindedly

blinded unblinded

blinder blinders

blindest

blindfish blindfishes

blindfold blindfolded blindfoldedly

blindfold blindfolded blindfoldedness

blindfold blindfolded unblindfolded

blindfold blindfolder blindfolders

blindfold blindfolding unblindfolding

blindfold blindfolds unblindfolds

blindfold unblindfold unblindfolded

blindfold unblindfold unblindfolding

blindfold unblindfold unblindfolds

blinding blindingly

blinding unblinding

blindly purblindly

blindness colorblindness colorblindnesses

blindness colourblindness

blindness nightblindness

blindness purblindness

blinds blindside blindsided

blinds blindside blindsides

blinds blindsiding

blinds blindsight blindsights

blinds blindstitcher blindstitchers

blinds duckblinds

colorblind colorblindness colorblindnesses

colourblind colourblindness

duckblind duckblinds

nightblind nightblindness

purblind purblindly

purblind purblindness

snowblind

unblind unblinded

unblind unblindfold unblindfolded

unblind unblindfold unblindfolding

unblind unblindfold unblindfolds

unblind unblinding