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Nouns (6)

n. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

n. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

n. 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, screen

n. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

Verbs (4)

blind

v. make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"

blind

v. render unable to see

blind, dim

v. make dim by comparison or conceal

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (7)

blind

adj. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

blind

adj. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

blind

adj. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

blind, unsighted

adj. 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

blind, unreasoning

adj. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

Fuzzynyms (128)

front, front end, forepart

n. the side that is forward or prominent

front tooth, anterior

n. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth; "his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors"

blind, screen

n. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

covering, natural covering, cover

n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"

cover, cover version, cover song

n. a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else; "they made a cover of a Beatles' song"

contrivance, stratagem, dodge

n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

ruse, artifice

n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

lie, prevarication

n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

sophism, sophistry, sophistication

n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre

n. a move made to gain a tactical end

dodge, dodging, scheme

n. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

buffer, fender

n. a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact

bumper

n. a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage

pillow

n. a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

sieve, screen

n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

screen, CRT screen

n. the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

screen door, screen

n. a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door; "he heard the screen slam as she left"

shock, cushion, shock absorber

n. a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses; "the old car needed a new set of shocks"

front

n. the side that is seen or that goes first

visor, vizor

n. a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face

front, front end, forepart

n. the side that is forward or prominent

front tooth, anterior

n. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth; "his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors"

blind

n. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

camouflage

n. device or stratagem for concealment or deceit

screen, cover, covert, concealment

n. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"

covering, natural covering, cover

n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"

cover, cover version, cover song

n. a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else; "they made a cover of a Beatles' song"

shade

v. pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree; "the butterfly wings shade to yellow"

dim, dip

v. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

dim, darken

v. become or make darker; "The screen darkened"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown"

dim

v. become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"

blur, dim, slur

v. become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"

obstructed

adj. shut off to passage or view or hindered from action; "a partially obstructed passageway"; "an obstructed view"; "justice obstructed is not justice"

hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

absurd

adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

overpriced

adj. too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"

expensive

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious

adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded

adj. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

great

adj. remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"

abundant

adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"

excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening

adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"

sparse, thin

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting

adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

moderate, temperate

adj. not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"

fair, fairish, reasonable

adj. not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"

outermost, outmost

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

bleached, faded, washed-out, washy

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

pastel

adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"

Synonyms (10)

blocked, out of use(p)

adj. closed to traffic; "the repaving results in many blocked streets"

unobservant, unseeing

adj. not consciously observing; "looked through him with blank unseeing eyes"

injudicious

adj. lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"

rash

adj. imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith

incoherent

adj. without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"

reasonless

adj. not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute"

nonrational

adj. not based on reason; "there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture"

superstitious

adj. showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"

Antonyms (6)

relieve, lighten

v. alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"

perceptive

adj. having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation"

sighted

adj. able to see

seeing

adj. having vision, not blind

rational

adj. consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"

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