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stone-blind

stone-blind

8.4
Not able to see at all
  • adjective
  • /stoʊn blaɪnd/
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  • He feels "like a blind man"; he is perceived by Hanna as "stone blind."

Examples

  • - He'll live, but he'll be stone blind.

  • Eventually, he went stone blind.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Drove my daddy stone blind.

  • If believing was seeing, he thought, they were both stone blind.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • And I had to give him that letter, laying my heart open like a stone-blind fool.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • She went stone-blind in the fury of a passion that had never before shown its power.

    Blog text (33)
  • He didn't even know we were in the room most of the time, and for a month I thought the poor bastard was stone-blind.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • After the accident, he was declared stone-blind, unable to see anything at all.

  • Due to a rare condition, she had been stone-blind since birth.

  • The veteran was stone-blind, yet he navigated the busy streets with surprising confidence.

Synonyms

sightless
vsstone-blind
5 5.0

Not able to see, as a person or animal

is total and absolute lack of vision, not partial or temporary
unsighted
vsstone-blind
8.8

A person who cannot see

is total and absolute lack of vision, not partial or temporary
unseeing
vsstone-blind
7.0

Not able to see

is total and absolute lack of vision, not partial or temporary
blinded
vsstone-blind
3.4

Unable to see because of injury, illness, or bright light

is total and absolute lack of vision, not necessarily caused or temporary

Antonyms

1.3

A person who can see

How Blind

stone-blind
8.4
blind
520 1.0
near-blind
1 6.3
sighted
1.3

Surface Forms

stone-blind positive

Morphology

stone-blind = stone + blind (semi-transparent) = stone + blind

The components 'stone' + 'blind' are literal and recognizable, but the compound functions as an intensifying metaphor meaning 'completely blind', which may not be strictly derivable by all learners.

Etymology

Stone-blind uses stone to mean 'completely' or 'like a stone'. So imagine a rock with no life or sight, and stone-blind means totally without sight.