blind

Adjective

• not based on reason or evidence
  • blind hatred
    
  • blind faith
    
  • unreasoning panic
    

• unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
  • blind to a lover's faults
    
  • blind to the consequences of their actions
    

• 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
    

Verb

• make dim by comparison or conceal

• make blind by putting the eyes out
  • The criminals were punished and blinded
    

• render unable to see

Noun

• 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
    

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

• a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
  • he waited impatiently in the blind
    

• people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
  • he spent hours reading to the blind
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  unreasoning , unsighted , dim , subterfuge , screen