color-blind
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- adjective
- /ˈkʌlərˌblaɪnd/
- US
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daltónico
- For example, a hypothetical student who was color-blind would not be "otherwise qualified" for a career as an electrician whose trade requires matching the colors of wires in order to avoid electrocution.
Dogs, for instance, see only two kinds of colors, like colour blind people see basically only two kinds of colours.
- Dogs, for instance, see only two kinds of colors, like colour blind people see basically only two kinds of colours.
Examples
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Couldn't go in the Navy; he was color blind, so he joined the Air Force.
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If you are color-blind, one of the things you can't be is an aircraft pilot.
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Would he really make it to 15 and not have any idea that he was color blind?
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Now, I was truly color blind in the North in which I was born and raised until I was 9.
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I am also red-green color blind, and I agree with what you say.
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As a partially color-blind person, this business of color is of particular interest to me.
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I'm actually color-blind.
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Scotland's police service has recently reversed a ban on recruiting colour-blind officers after a disappointed potential candidate launched a legal challenge against its position.
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He's color-blind too.
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Many traffic lights use colors that a color-blind person might not be able to distinguish accurately.
Synonyms
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3.7
Unable to see the difference between some colors, often red and green
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Not able to see some colors or tell them apart
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Color-blind comes from the parts color and blind, where blind means 'unable to see'. So to be color-blind is literally to be 'unable to see color', which is why the word describes people who cannot tell some colors.