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colorblind

colorblind

1 3.6
Not able to see some colors or tell them apart
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌlərˌblaɪnd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : daltónico
  • Many people who are colorblind do not know of it until they take an army medical.

Like my first hypothesis is maybe he's colorblind, right?

Examples

  • But if a colorblind woman has children with a colorblind man, then all of their children would be colorblind.

  • - Well, I'm actually colorblind, but she thinks it's green, too.

    Shithouse (2020)

  • The Wilson boys are painting the inside of the church... ...and one of them is colorblind.

    Ode to Billy Joe (1976)

  • "When they returned to the classroom, she explained to everyone that Scott got his colors mixed up because he was colorblind.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I would like to chime in with a "me too" as a blue-green colorblind person.

    Blog text (11)

  • The game is colorblind-friendly, with significant colors identified with text prompts when the cursor is over them.

    Blog text (4)

  • Being colorblind means you don't see the beautiful fall colors.

  • The game is colorblind-friendly, with significant colors identified with text prompts when the cursor is over them.

Synonyms

color-blind
vscolorblind
  • US
8 4.0

Unable to tell some colors apart, often red and green

is written as one word without a hyphen
color blind
vscolorblind
  • US
2 3.7

Unable to see the difference between some colors, often red and green

is written as one word rather than two separate words

Surface Forms

colorblind positive

Morphology

colorblind = color + blind (transparent) = color + blind

A direct, literal compound meaning 'blind with respect to color'; the sense follows straightforwardly from its parts.

Etymology

Colorblind joins color and blind, with blind meaning 'unable to see'. So colorblind is used for someone who cannot tell some colors apart.