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color blind

color blind adjective: unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).

Adjective

color blind (comparative more color blind, superlative most color blind)

  1. Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
  2. (figuratively) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color.
    • Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183
    • MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about...2021 September 16, Bill Maher, 7:52 from the start, in Bill Maher on Getting Anger from Both Sides, Our Divided Country & Norm Macdonald’s Passing, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

color blind meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog and Indonesian

color blind in Hindi

unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors
वर्णांध varṇāndh

color blind in Tamil

நிறக்குருடு

color blind in Tagalog

unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors
bulag sa kulay

color blind in Indonesian

unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors
buta warna
More languagesFewer languages
color blind in Persian
کوررنگ kûrrang
color blind in Vietnamese
mù màu

Forms of color blind

comparativemore color blind
superlativemost color blind
alternative formcolorblind
alternative formcolor-blind
alternative formcolourblind
alternative formcolour-blind
alternative formcolour blind

Words formed from color blind

Questions about color blind

What does color blind mean?
Color blind means unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
What is color blind in Hindi?
Color blind in Hindi is वर्णांध (varṇāndh). See Color blind meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is color blind?
Color blind is an adjective.

Words near color blind in the dictionary

  1. color bar
  2. color barrier
  3. color barriers
  4. color bars
  5. color bass
  6. color blind
  7. color blindness
  8. color blindnesses
  9. color by number
  10. color by numbers
  11. color center

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: color blind (page history and authors); color blind (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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