stone-blind

[ stohn-blahynd ]

adjective

1. completely blind.

stone-blind

adjective

1. completely blind Compare sand-blind

Other Words From

• stoneblindness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stone-blind¹

1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde; stone, blind

Synonym Study

See blind.

Example Sentences

When he had opened and read about four letters, his moral nature turned stone-blind of one eye.

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He was still hunched up in the record-man's chair, and to all appearances had gone stone-blind crazy.

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She, too, had the choice to indulge in scorn of the superior man stone blind to proceedings intimately affecting him—if he cared!

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Theoretically, it seems strange that able-bodied individuals should be afraid of a man who is stone blind.

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All these men present' (pointing to his fellow villagers) 'know it to be the truth; and if I lie, may I become stone blind!

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