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What does blind mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blind? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  2. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  3. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
  4. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
  5. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end
  6. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
  7. smallest or slightest in phrases such as
  8. (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
  9. (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
  10. Unintelligible or illegible.
  11. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
Noun
  1. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
  2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
  3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
  4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
  5. (military) A blindage.
  6. A halting place.
  7. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
  8. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
  9. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
  10. (as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
  2. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
  3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
  4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Adverb
  1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
  2. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
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