stone-blind
- adjective
- /stoʊn blaɪnd/
- He feels "like a blind man"; he is perceived by Hanna as "stone blind."
Examples
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- He'll live, but he'll be stone blind.
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Eventually, he went stone blind.
Fiction book (1993) -
Drove my daddy stone blind.
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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.
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Due to a rare condition, she had been stone-blind since birth.
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The veteran was stone-blind, yet he navigated the busy streets with surprising confidence.
Synonyms
Not able to see, as a person or animal
A person who cannot see
Not able to see
Unable to see because of injury, illness, or bright light
Antonyms
How Blind
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.