blind

blind

adjective

Definition of BLIND

1

lacking the power of sight <our old blind cat kept walking into walls and furniture>

Synonyms eyeless, sightless, stone-blind, visionless

Related Words blinded, blindfold, blindfolded, unsighted; gravel-blind, purblind

Near Antonyms observant, observing, seeing; clear-eyed, clear-sighted; gimlet-eyed, lynx-eyed, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted

Antonyms sighted

2

being under the influence of alcohol <you'd have to be really blind to think that was a good idea>

Synonyms besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Related Words maudlin; beery; befuddled, bleary-eyed, crapulous, dopey (also dopy), rocky, strung out, stupefied; debauched, dissipated, dissolute; alcoholic, bibulous, dipsomaniacal

Near Antonyms abstemious, abstinent, dry, temperate, teetotal; clearheaded, cool, level, steady

Antonyms sober, straight