'Blind spot' definitions:
Definition of 'blind spot'
From: WordNet
noun
A subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment; "golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it"
noun
The point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light [syn: blind spot, optic disc, optic disk]
Definition of 'Blind spot'
From: GCIDE
- Blind \Blind\, a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
- 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. [1913 Webster]
- He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. [1913 Webster]
- But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. [1913 Webster]
- This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. --Jay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. [1913 Webster]
- The blind mazes of this tangled wood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. [1913 Webster]
- Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. --Knight.
- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
- Blind cat (Zool.), a species of catfish ({Gronias nigrolabris}), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
- Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. --Simmonds.
- Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a.
- Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. --Knight.
- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. --Swift.
- Blind snake (Zool.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes.
- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blind spot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablepsia,
- amaurosis,
- atmospheric attenuation,
- atmospherics,
- authoritarianism,
- benightedness,
- bigotry,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- blind side,
- blind spots,
- blinders,
- blindfolding,
- blinding,
- blindness,
- blurring the eyes,
- cataract,
- cecity,
- closed mind,
- clutter,
- cramped ideas,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- darkness,
- deflection,
- depriving of sight,
- dim-sightedness,
- drift,
- drop serene,
- economic blindness,
- ever-during dark,
- excecation,
- eyelessness,
- fade-out,
- fading,
- false echoes,
- fanaticism,
- glaucoma,
- ground clutter,
- gutta serena,
- hideboundness,
- hoodwinking,
- illiberality,
- insularism,
- insularity,
- interference,
- lack of vision,
- little-mindedness,
- littleness,
- making blind,
- mean mind,
- meanness,
- narrow sympathies,
- narrow views,
- narrow-mindedness,
- narrowness,
- nearsightedness,
- niphablepsia,
- noise,
- odium theologicum,
- parochialism,
- partial blindness,
- pettiness,
- petty mind,
- provincialism,
- psychic blindness,
- purblindness,
- reception,
- reduced sight,
- refraction,
- sea clutter,
- shortsightedness,
- shut mind,
- sightless eyes,
- sightlessness,
- smallness,
- snow blindness,
- soul-blindness,
- spiritual blindness,
- static,
- stone-blindness,
- straitlacedness,
- stuffiness,
- superrefraction,
- total blindness,
- trachoma,
- uncatholicity,
- unenlightenment,
- unseeingness