color-blind
[kuhl-er-blahynd]
- 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
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Examples from the Web for color-blind
Contemporary Examples
As left-wing biographer Rick Perlstein grants, Goldwater was a man of color-blind temperament, conviction, and personal action.
This is not the color-blind America Dr. King and true leaders of the civil-rights era fought for.
Richard Wright and James Baldwin had made France out to be a color-blind paradise.
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April 6, 2012
Inside an outrageous case that shows that the old-boys network is color-blind.
Historical Examples
The man who wrote that phrase must have been not only color-blind, he must have been color-dead!
Glimpses of Three CoastsHelen Hunt Jackson
Perhaps you're color-blind, and can't distinguish red and yellow.
An Unsocial SocialistGeorge Bernard Shaw
But that sort of a temperature makes a man near-sighted and color-blind.
The Honorable Senator Sage-BrushFrancis Lynde
"I believe I must be color-blind," said the Pumpkinhead, after staring about him.
The Marvellous Land of OzL. Frank Baum
I had a very intelligent friend who was dismissed from an important position because he was color-blind.
What and Where is God?Richard La Rue Swain