colour-blind
Britishadjective
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of or relating to any defect in the normal ability to distinguish certain colours See deuteranopia protanopia tritanopia
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not discriminating on grounds of skin colour or ethnic origin
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But she says it runs in the family - with her dad and sister being fully colour-blind.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
The BBC and the UK's Met Office both use colour scales in graphics designed to be accessible to those who are colour-blind or have a visual colour deficiency.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022
A new adaptation of David Copperfield is the latest project to take a colour-blind approach to casting.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2019
For a start, Rourke has imported from British theatre a principle still unfamiliar in cinema: colour-blind casting.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2019
Suspicion is a beast with a thousand eyes, but most of them are blind, or colour-blind, or askew, or rolling, or yellow.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
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