Nouns (4)
blind
n. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"
blind
n. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
screen
n. something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
subterfuge
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"
Verbs (8)
blind
v. render unable to see
dim
v. make dim by comparison or conceal
excecate, put the eyes out, blind the eyes, make blind, strike blind, render blind
v. make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (12)
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"
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
undetectable
adj. not easily seen
unreasonable, unreasoning
adj. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
oblivious, oblivious of, oblivious to, unmindful of, blind to
adj. (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"
Fuzzynyms (171)
front, front end
n. the side that is forward or prominent
anterior, front tooth
n. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth; "his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors"
blind, screen
n. something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
covering, cover, natural covering
n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
cover, top
n. covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "he couldn't get the top off of the bottle"; "put the cover back on the kettle"
buffer, fender
n. a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to contact
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
screen, sieve
n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
form, display, look, view, representation, image, picture
n. display on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube on which is electronically created
screen, screen door
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
n. the side that is forward or prominent
anterior, front tooth
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
cover, concealment, screen, covert
n. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of darkness"
covering, cover, natural covering
n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
cover, top
n. covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "he couldn't get the top off of the bottle"; "put the cover back on the kettle"
dodge, stratagem, contrivance
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)
prevarication, lie
n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
shenanigan, trickery, chicanery, guile, wile
n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
sophism, sophistry
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 manoeuver, tactical maneuver
n. a move made to gain a tactical end
dodge, dodging, scheme
n. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
shade, shadow, shade off
v. cast a shadow over
dip, dim
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, become lusterless, become dim
v. become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
slur, blur, dim, become indistinct, become vague
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, 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"
incongruous, unreasonable, 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"
steep, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, 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"
giving, liberal, big, handsome, bountiful, bounteous, openhanded, free-handed, big-hearted
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"
extreme, Olympian, great, exceptional, prodigious, exceeding, surpassing
adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
abundant
adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
exuberant, excessive, overweening, extravagant
adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
thin, sparse
adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
scotch, sparing, economical, frugal, 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"
pale, pastel, whitish, palish, light-colored, light-coloured
adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
insensible
adj. incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
unconscious
adj. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor"
forgetful, neglectful, forgetful of, inattentive to, neglectful of
adj. failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"
green, unwary, unsuspecting, fleeceable, gullible
adj. naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
trusting
adj. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall
accidental, inadvertent
adj. without intention (especially resulting from heedless action); "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
chance, casual, accidental
adj. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
unwitting, undesigned, unintentional, unplanned
adj. not intentional; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked"
inattentive
adj. showing a lack of attention or care; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"
heedless, unnoticing, unobservant
adj. (inattentive)
Synonyms (30)
out of use, blocked
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, ill-advised, unwise
adj. lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"
rash, improvident, shortsighted, ill-considered
adj. not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt"
camouflaged
adj. made invisible by means of protective coloring
concealed, hidden, out of sight
adj. not accessible to view; "concealed (or hidden) damage"; "in stormy weather the stars are out of sight"
infrared
adj. having or employing wavelengths longer than light but shorter than radio waves; lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; "infrared radiation"; "infrared photography"
ultraviolet
adj. having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; "ultraviolet radiation"; "an ultraviolet lamp"
unseen
adj. not seen or perceived; "unseen natural resources"
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 or the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"
incognizant, ignorant of, incognizant of, unaware of
adj. (often followed by `of') not aware; "seemed unaware of the scrutiny"; "unaware of the danger they were in"; "unaware of the newborn hope"; "the most unaware person I've known"
unconscious of
adj. "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
unknowing, unsuspecting, unwitting
adj. (often followed by `of') not knowing or expecting; not thinking likely; "an unsuspecting victim"; "unsuspecting (or unaware) of the fact that I would one day be their leader"
Antonyms (10)
lighten, lighten up, brighten, make brighter
v. make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"
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"
aware
adj. aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists"
alert
adj. very attentive or observant; "an alert and responsive baby is a joy"; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
blind
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