adj
(obsolete) blinded; made blind.
adj
Referring to Pythagorean disciples who for years listened to his lectures from behind a curtain, unable to see him.
n
The inability to comprehend or respond to music.
adj
(medicine) Totally deaf.
n
(medicine) Total deafness.
n
A person who thinks themselves superior to deaf people because they can hear.
adj
(of a person, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) Deaf or hard of hearing.
adj
(obsolete) blind; stupid
v
(transitive, archaic) To blind (cause to be blind); make completely blind.
adj
(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
adj
(archaic) sandblind, purblind
adj
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
adj
(in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
adj
(simile) Nearly totally blind, having a very poor sense of vision
adj
(simile) Synonym of blind as a bat
adj
(simile) Synonym of blind as a bat
adj
(simile) Synonym of blind as a bat
n
(UK, informal) The slightest bit; any amount at all.
n
(Australia, informal) Alternative form of Blind Freddy [(Australia, informal) An imaginary incapacitated person held up as an archetype of incapacity: what blind Freddy can see (understand) must be very obvious.]
n
(Australia, informal) An imaginary incapacitated person held up as an archetype of incapacity: what blind Freddy can see (understand) must be very obvious.
n
(figuratively) An inability to recognize a fact or think clearly about a certain topic, especially because of a prejudice.
n
A method for testing human response, in which the testee is given little or no specific information about the object under test; used e.g. for testing medicines and food products.
v
(idiomatic) To overwhelm someone with details in order to influence or mislead them.
v
(transitive, rare) To make or render blind
n
A covering, usually a bandage, for the eyes, blocking light to the eyes.
n
A person who is blindfolded.
n
One who, or an object which, blindfolds someone.
v
(transitive, rare) To render someone blind by covering their head with a hood.
n
(slang, derogatory, offensive) A blind person.
n
The quality of being blinding.
adj
As if blind; characteristic of blindness.
n
An idiosyncratic behaviour associated with blind people.
n
(archaic) A man who is blind.
n
Alternative form of blind man's buff [(Britain, games) A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to catch the other players.]
adj
That exhibits blindsight
n
A person who exhibits blindsight
n
Alternative form of blind spot [The place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, and so where the retina cannot detect light.]
adj
Wearing blinkers or blinders.
n
Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
n
Alternative form of cecity [(uncommon, literary) blindness]
adj
(figuratively) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
n
(uncommon, literary) blindness
n
(obsolete) Partial blindness, or a tendency toward blindness.
v
(UK, intransitive, slang) To turn a deaf ear; to refuse to listen, or pretend not to have heard.
n
A person born hearing to deaf parents.
adj
Completely unconscious.
adj
(of a person or animal) Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
adj
In a coma: unconscious.
n
Archaic spelling of cecity. [(uncommon, literary) blindness]
adj
Deprived of sight; blind.
adj
Alternative spelling of day-blind [(medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; hemeralopic]
adj
(medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; hemeralopic
n
The state or quality of being day-blind.
adj
Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
n
(UK, offensive) A hearing aid.
adj
(now offensive) Deaf and not able to speak.
adj
(simile) stone deaf (unable to hear at all)
adj
(simile) stone deaf (unable to hear at all)
adj
(simile) stone deaf (unable to hear at all)
n
(genetics) A mutation in mice that causes hearing loss and a waddling gait.
adj
Alternative spelling of deafblind [Unable to see and hear.]
n
Alternative spelling of deafblindness [The medical condition of being both deaf and blind.]
n
(now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak.
n
The state of being deaf-mute
n
(slang, MTE) A harsh slap to the ear, often causing the target's eardrums to ring.
adj
Unable to see and hear.
n
The medical condition of being both deaf and blind.
adj
Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
n
A stereotypy characteristic of deaf people.
n
Alternative form of deaf-mute [(now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak.]
n
The condition of being a deaf-mute.
n
(slang, derogatory) A deaf person.
n
(medicine) The inability to detect changes in loudness when the intensity of a sound wave changes.
adj
(obsolete or dialectal) deaf
adj
Not able to see clearly or easily; having weak or cloudy vision.
n
(informal) The inability to see something that is plainly visible, in an everyday home situation.
adj
Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the experiment is withheld from two parties. Most commonly, parties in question are the subjects and the administrators and the information which is withheld is the treatment groups of the subjects.
n
(medicine, archaic) amaurosis
adj
(dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
adj
(UK dialect) Somewhat deaf, hard of hearing.
v
(Britain, slang) Synonym of eff and blind
v
(transitive, archaic) to make or render blind
n
learning attributes of deaf people
n
(obsolete) The act of making blind.
adj
Having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.
adj
Tenuous or indefinite.
n
(rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
adj
More than partially blind, but not completely blind.
adj
In a state of not being fully awake.
adj
Alternative spelling of half-awake [Barely awake.]
adj
(idiomatic) Having difficulty hearing; somewhat deaf.
n
difficulty in hearing; partial deafness
v
(humorous) To be tone-deaf.
adj
Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
adj
Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.
n
(medicine) The condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
n
the phenomenon of not being able to hear things that are within earshot
adj
Having inattentional deafness; not being able to hear things that are within earshot
v
(obsolete, transitive) To produce blindness in; make blind; blind.
adj
(archaic) inflammatory
n
A degree of visual acuity that is low enough to determine that a person needs special assistance.
n
The optical condition night blindness: reduced eyesight in faint light.
adj
Sight-impaired by the equine eye-disease moon blindness.
adj
(obsolete) Dim-sighted; purblind.
adj
(Cockney rhyming slang, comparable) Deaf.
adj
(Cockney rhyming slang) deaf.
adj
(Cockney rhyming slang) deaf
adj
Alternative spelling of night-blind [(medicine) unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from night blindness.]
adj
(medicine) unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from night blindness.
adj
Alternative form of night-blind [(medicine) unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from night blindness.]
adj
Unable to hear, i.e. deaf.
adj
Synonym of nose blind (“lacking the sense of smell”)
adj
Alternative form of nose blind. [Lacking the sense of smell.]
adj
Possessed of an extremely poor or non-existent sense of smell.
adj
Alternative form of nose deaf [Synonym of nose blind (“lacking the sense of smell”)]
adj
Alternative form of nose blind. [Lacking the sense of smell.]
adj
Alternative form of nose deaf [Synonym of nose blind (“lacking the sense of smell”)]
v
Synonym of not know whether to shit or go blind (“be bewildered”).
n
The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
n
(obsolete) An act of going blind.
n
(obsolete) The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.
n
Obsolete form of occaecation. [(obsolete) An act of going blind.]
adj
Seeing better in darkness than light; day-blind or photosensitive.
adj
Synonym of inattentionally blind
adj
(obsolete) near-sighted; short-sighted; purblind
n
(obsolete) obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight
adj
Near-sighted or dim-sighted.
n
The state, quality, or condition of being race-blind; colour-blindness
adj
Alternative spelling of sandblind [Half-blind; partially blind.]
adj
Half-blind; partially blind.
n
Intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.
v
(by extension) To blind.
adj
Very hard of hearing: nearly deaf.
n
the characteristic of being sightless; blindness
adj
Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the trial is withheld from particular participants until the experiment is complete. Most commonly, information about treatment groups is withheld from subjects, but not the administrators.
adj
Affected by snow blindness; temporarily blinded by light reflected off snow.
adj
Affected by snow blindness; temporarily blinded by light reflected off snow.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Blind or half-blind.
adj
(idiomatic) Utterly deaf.
n
A blind used to protect against the sun.
adj
(obsolete) Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf.
n
The condition of being time-blind.
adj
Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes.
adv
In a tone-deaf manner.
adv
The condition or quality of being tone-deaf.
adj
Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the experiment is withheld from three different parties until the outcome of the experiment is known: most commonly, the three parties are the subjects, the administrators, and the statisticians analysing the data.
v
To cause (experimenters) to learn information which, for the purposes of avoiding bias, was previously unknown to them, or should be unknown to them, such as the knowledge of which patients received a drug and which a placebo.
v
(transitive, nonce word) To free from deafness.
v
(transitive) To free from deafness; to restore hearing to.
n
Inability to see; blindness.
adj
Partly or wholly blind.
adj
Describes a person who suffers from word blindness or alexia.
n
(medicine) Auditory aphasia: a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them.
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