color blind
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈkʌlər blaɪnd/
- US
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daltónico
- Being color blind means he cannot distinguish between certain colors, especially red and green.
Now you look at these balls, green and red and your friend is colour blind.
- Now you look at these balls, green and red and your friend is colour blind.
- It'd be like talking to a color blind person about color.
- She's just full of spectrum of colors that I can't see because I'm and color blind Lord.
- Don't know what there was someone in my school who was colour blind in one eye but didn't know which eye.
Examples
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- Are you color blind?
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I thought you were color blind.
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Dwayne, I think you might be color blind.
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You said you're color blind.
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I mean, I can't see the difference, I'm color blind.
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Many artists who are color blind develop unique techniques to create beautiful artworks.
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He discovered he was color blind when he struggled to differentiate between a green apple and a red one.
Synonyms
8
4.0
Unable to tell some colors apart, often red and green
1
3.6
Not able to see some colors or tell them apart
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal sense 'unable to see colors' is directly derivable from 'color' + 'blind', so learners will grasp that basic meaning; however the sociopolitical sense 'not considering race' is a metaphorical extension and may not be predicted by a B1 learner who has not seen the expression. Because the social/ideological meaning is related to but not fully transparent from the parts (and can be ambiguous with the literal sense), the item is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Color blind originally described a medical problem: it named people whose eyes are 'blind' to certain colors because they lack the special cells that help tell those colors apart, so red and green can look similar. That's why it means 'unable to distinguish certain colors'.