Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun blinder

1 sense of blinder

Sense 1
winker, blinker, blinder -- (blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side)
       => blind, screen -- (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet")

Antonyms of adj blind

3 senses of blind

Sense 1
blind (vs. sighted), unsighted -- (unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan)

sighted (vs. blind) -- (able to see)
        => argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted -- (having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat")
        => clear-sighted -- (having sharp clear vision)
        => seeing -- (having vision, not blind)

Sense 2
blind -- (unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions")

INDIRECT (VIA unperceptive) -> perceptive -- (having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation")

Sense 3
blind, unreasoning -- (not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic")

INDIRECT (VIA irrational) -> rational -- (consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought")

Similarity of adj blind

3 senses of blind

Sense 1
blind (vs. sighted), unsighted -- (unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan)
       => blinded -- (deprived of sight)
       => blindfold, blindfolded -- (wearing a blindfold)
       => color-blind, colour-blind -- (unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors)
       => dazzled -- (having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light; "she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance")
       => deuteranopic, green-blind -- (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)
       => dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged -- (having greatly reduced vision)
       => eyeless, sightless, unseeing -- (lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar")
       => protanopic, red-blind -- (inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green)
       => snow-blind, snow-blinded -- (temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice)
       => stone-blind -- (completely blind)
       => tritanopic, blue-blind -- (inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow)

Sense 2
blind -- (unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions")
       => unperceptive (vs. perceptive), unperceiving -- (lacking perception; "as unperceptive as a boulder")

Sense 3
blind, unreasoning -- (not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic")
       => irrational (vs. rational) -- (not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals")