Definition of "blind" []

• Sightless. (adjective)
• Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test). (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or for sightless persons. (adjective)
• Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result: blind taste tests used in marketing studies. (adjective)
• Performed without preparation, experience, or knowledge: made a blind stab at answering the question. (adjective)

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• "Accordingly, when we say, ˜Homer was a blind man,™ the word ˜blind™ actively signifies the passive mode of understanding something as being without sight, and owes its semantic function to the way its corresponding concept is understood."
• "Antonio meets with a blind girl, whom he does or does not love, on whom at least he poetises, and whose forehead, _because she was blind_, he had kissed."
• "We must say of them, “Let them alone; they be blind leaders of the blind” (Matt. xv."