Blind vs Insane - What's the difference?
blind | insane | Synonyms |
(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
* Shakespeare
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(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
* Milton
(not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.
(not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
smallest or slightest in phrases such as
(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
* Jay
Unintelligible or illegible.
(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
A covering for a window to keep out light. The may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
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A mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
Any device intended to conceal or hide.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(military) A blindage.
A halting place.
No score.
(poker) A forced bet.
(poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.
To make temporarily or permanently blind.
* South
(slang, obsolete) To curse.
* 1890 , Rudyard Kipling,
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
* Dryden
* Stillingfleet
To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Without seeing; unseeingly.
(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
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Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Causing insanity or madness.
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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Blind is a synonym of insane.
As adjectives the difference between blind and insane
is that blind is (not comparable|of a person or animal) unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors while insane is exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted .As a noun blind
is a covering for a window to keep out light the may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.As a verb blind
is to make temporarily or permanently blind.As an adverb blind
is without seeing; unseeingly.blind
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) blindeAdjective
(er)- He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
- He was plainly blind , for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
- The lovers were blind to each other's faults.
- Authors are blind to their own defects.
- a blind''' path; a '''blind''' ditch; a '''blind corner
- the blind mazes of this tangled wood
- a blind''' wall, open only at one end; a '''blind''' alley; a '''blind gut
- I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
- ''We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
- He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
- blind deference
- blind punishment
- This plan is recommended neither to blind' approbation nor to ' blind reprobation.
- a blind''' passage in a book; '''blind writing
- blind''' buds; '''blind flowers
Derived terms
* blind alley * blind as a bat * blind curve * blind date * blind drunk (See also ) * blind gut * blind map * blind pig * blind pool * blind spot * blind stamp * the blind leading the blind * blind tiger * blinders * blindfish * blindfold * blindman's buff * blinds * blindworm * double-blind * * love is blind * moon-blind * night-blind * purblind * rob somebody blind * snow-blind * stereoblind * word-blindSee also
* invisible (unable to be seen ) * anosmic * deaf * print disabledNoun
(en noun)- a duck blind
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Synonyms
* (destination sign) rollsign (mainly US)Derived terms
* big blind * blinders * small blind * Venetian blind * blind mapSee also
* curtain * jalousieVerb
(en verb)- The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded .
- Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
- A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is a much greater.
- If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
- Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind ;
- Be handy and civil, and then you will find
- That it's beer for the young British soldier.
- Such darkness blinds the sky.
- The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
Derived terms
* blind with science * blinder * blinding * blindnessAdverb
(en adverb)insane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What is the cause of insanity?
Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that,
but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break
down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In
fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed
to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins,
and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling
part of the story—the other half of the people who go in-
sane' apparently have nothing organically wrong with
their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their
brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered micro-
scopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as
yours and mine.
Why do these people go ' insane ?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!