What is another word for blinder?

Pronunciation: [blˈa͡ɪndə] (IPA)

The word "blinder" is often used to refer to something that prevents someone from seeing. However, there are several synonyms for "blinder" that can be used in different contexts. Some common synonyms include "screen," "curtain," "veil," "obstacle," "block," and "shield." These alternatives can convey different meanings depending on the situation. For instance, "shield" might suggest protection or defense, while "screen" might indicate a barrier that separates. Regardless of the context, using synonyms can help to add variety and richness to our vocabulary, making our writing and speech more interesting and engaging.

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What are the hypernyms for Blinder?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Blinder?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for blinder (as nouns)

Usage examples for Blinder

In the words of that remarkable naturalist, William J. Long, To call a thing intelligence in one creature and reflex action in another, or to speak of the same thing as love or kindness in one and blind impulse in the other, is to be blinder ourselves than the impulse which is supposed to govern animals.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
"If you weren't blinder than a bat, mother, you'd know by this time what ailed Fan," he said angrily.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
Have ye never seen, ye blinder-than-bats-how one man holds a patient while his boils are lanced, and yet another makes the hot iron ready?
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy

Famous quotes with Blinder

  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
    Isaac Asimov
  • Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    William James
  • Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
    Victor Hugo
  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
    Isaac Asimov
  • Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
    William Wordsworth

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