color-blind

[ kuhl-er-blahynd ]

/ ˈkʌl ərˌblaɪnd /

adjective

Ophthalmology. pertaining to or affected with color blindness.

Photography. (of an emulsion) sensitive only to blue, violet, and ultraviolet rays.

showing or characterized by freedom from racial bias; not influenced by skin color.

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Origin of color-blind

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby color-blind

Colorado topaz, colorant, coloration, coloratura, colorbearer, color-blind, color blindness, colorbreed, colorcast, colorcaster, color charge

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Example sentences from the Web for color-blind

As left-wing biographer Rick Perlstein grants, Goldwater was a man of color-blind temperament, conviction, and personal action.
It's Not Racist to Hate Government|Nick Gillespie|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is not the color-blind America Dr. King and true leaders of the civil-rights era fought for.
An Inconvenient Truth: Neither Party Is Serious About Diversity|Ron Christie|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Richard Wright and James Baldwin had made France out to be a color-blind paradise.
Must Reads: Kennedy, Sontag and Paris, ‘A Partial History of Lost Causes,’ ‘City of Bohane,’ ‘Flatscreen’|Lauren Elkin, Mythili Rao, Drew Toal, Nicholas Mancusi|April 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Inside an outrageous case that shows that the old-boys network is color-blind.
A College, a Gun—and a Big Injustice|Stanley Crouch|June 7, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Railroad accidents have occurred because the engineer of the train, who was color-blind, has mistaken the color of a signal.
A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene|Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
Or, to go more into detail, a color-blind father and normal mother have only normal children whether sons or daughters.
Being Well-Born|Michael F. Guyer
He (Col. Harden) always said that he was color-blind, and could not distinguish between the color of people.
Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson|John McElroy
The same stimulus that arouses in most people the sensation of red arouses in the color-blind individual the sensation of brown.
Psychology|Robert S. Woodworth
It is still the goal to the color-blind and normal alike, whatever they call it, however, they visualize it.
Between Friends|Robert W. Chambers

Medical definitions for color-blind

colorblind

adj.

Partially or totally unable to distinguish certain colors.

Scientific definitions for color-blind

colorblind

[ kŭl′ər-blīnd′ ]

Unable to distinguish certain colors. Humans who are colorblind usually cannot distinguish red from green. Many animals, including cats and dogs, are colorblind and unable to distinguish more than a few colors.

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