Adjective

(er)

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

*

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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

* Bishop Porteus

broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.

* John Locke

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

* D. Daggett

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

* E. Everett

in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

* Shakespeare

as broad and general as the casing air

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Adjective

(er)

(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

* Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

* 1883 , ,

He was plainly blind , for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...

(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

The lovers were blind to each other's faults.

Authors are blind to their own defects.

(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.

a blind''' path; a '''blind''' ditch; a '''blind corner

* Milton

the blind mazes of this tangled wood

(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.

a blind''' wall, open only at one end; a '''blind''' alley; a '''blind gut

smallest or slightest in phrases such as

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.

(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.

He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.

(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

blind deference

blind punishment

* Jay

This plan is recommended neither to blind' approbation nor to ' blind reprobation.

Unintelligible or illegible.

a blind''' passage in a book; '''blind writing

(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

blind''' buds; '''blind flowers