colour-blindadjective
UK US colorblind uk/ˈkʌl.ə.blaɪnd/us/ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd/unable to see the difference between particular colours , especially green and red
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Eyesight, glasses & lenses
- (as) blind as a bat idiom
- 20/20 vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- AMD
- Balint's syndrome
- blepharospasm
- blind side
- blindly
- ciliary
- cross-eyed
- dispensing optician
- horn-rimmed
- lorgnette
- nearsighted
- ophthalmologist
- optometrist
- safety glasses
- sightless
- spectacle
- twenty-twenty vision
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Examples from literature
- Accidents have sometimes occurred because the engineers were colour-blind and red and green looked alike to them.
- Ordinary pigments are never pure, and the test colours may be distinguished by those of their adventitious hues to which the partly colour-blind man may be sensitive.
- There are many people who are what are called colour-blind, being unable to distinguish one colour from another.
- They had no more notion of its true nature than a colour-blind man, who has not discerned his defect, has of the nature of colour.