"color blind" meaning in English

See color blind in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more color blind [comparative], most color blind [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} color blind (comparative more color blind, superlative most color blind)
  1. (of a person or animal) Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green). Translations (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors): daltônico (Brazilian Portuguese), далтонист (daltonist) (Bulgarian), daltonià (Catalan), daltònic (Catalan), 色盲 (sèmáng) (Chinese Mandarin), farveblind (Danish), kleurenblind (Dutch), daltónico (European Portuguese), värisokea (Finnish), daltonien (French), daltónico (Galician), farbenblind (German), वर्णांध (varṇāndh) (Hindi), színvak (Hungarian), litblindur (Icelandic), buta warna (Indonesian), daltonico (Italian), 色覚異常の (shikikaku ijō no) (alt: しきかくいじょうの) (Japanese), 色盲の (shikimō no) (alt: しきもうの) (Japanese), faarweblann (Luxembourgish), далтони́ст (daltoníst) [masculine, noun] (Macedonian), fargeblind (Norwegian), daltonian (Occitan), کوررنگ (kûrrang) (Persian), daltonista [masculine] (Polish), discromatopsic (Romanian), daltonist (Romanian), дальто́ник (dalʹtónik) [noun] (Russian), daltónico (Spanish), färgblind (Swedish), bulag sa kulay (Tagalog), mù màu (Vietnamese), lliwddall (Welsh)
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  2. (of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Ophthalmology Synonyms: colorblind, color-blind, colourblind, colour-blind, colour blind [UK] Derived forms: colorblindness Related terms: deuteranomaly, deuteranopia, dichromacy, monochromacy, protanomaly, protanopia, tritanomaly, tritanopia
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Alternative forms

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          "text": "Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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!:",
          "text": "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 being a colorblind society.[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Don Demel[…] said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”",
          "type": "quote"
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        "Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color."
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          "skin color",
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        ],
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        "(of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color."
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        "of a person or process"
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        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "deuteranomaly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "deuteranopia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "dichromacy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "monochromacy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "protanomaly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "protanopia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "tritanomaly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "tritanopia"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "colorblind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "color-blind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "colourblind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "colour-blind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "colour blind"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "color blind"
}
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    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
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    "Terms with Occitan translations",
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    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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      "word": "colorblindness"
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      "form": "more color blind",
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      "word": "deuteranopia"
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      "word": "dichromacy"
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      "word": "monochromacy"
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      "word": "protanomaly"
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      "word": "protanopia"
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      "word": "tritanopia"
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        "Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green)."
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        "(of a person or animal) Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green)."
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          "ref": "2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183:",
          "text": "Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "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!:",
          "text": "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 being a colorblind society.[…]",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Don Demel[…] said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”",
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        "Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color."
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        "(of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color."
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      "word": "colorblind"
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      "word": "color-blind"
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      "word": "colourblind"
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    {
      "word": "colour-blind"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "colour blind"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "daltonist",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "далтонист"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonià"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltònic"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sèmáng",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "色盲"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "farveblind"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "kleurenblind"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "värisokea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonien"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltónico"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "farbenblind"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "varṇāndh",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "वर्णांध"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "színvak"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "litblindur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "buta warna"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しきかくいじょうの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikikaku ijō no",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "色覚異常の"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しきもうの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikimō no",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "色盲の"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "faarweblann"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "daltoníst",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "далтони́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "fargeblind"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonian"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kûrrang",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "کوررنگ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "daltonista"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Brazilian Portuguese",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltônico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "European Portuguese",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltónico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "discromatopsic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonist"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dalʹtónik",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "дальто́ник"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltónico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "färgblind"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "bulag sa kulay"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "mù màu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "lliwddall"
    }
  ],
  "word": "color blind"
}

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