"color blind" meaning in English

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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), 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)
    Sense id: en-color_blind-en-adj-7CAIhOKy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of 'unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors': 89 11
  2. (of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: colorblind, color-blind, colourblind, colour-blind, colour blind [UK] Derived forms: colorblindness Related terms: deuteranomaly, deuteranopia, dichromacy, monochromacy, protanomaly, protanopia, tritanomaly, tritanopia
    Sense id: en-color_blind-en-adj-C9~Rong1

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          "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.[…]",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "далтонист"
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonià"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltònic"
    },
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      "roman": "sèmáng",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "色盲"
    },
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "farveblind"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "kleurenblind"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "värisokea"
    },
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      "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"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "színvak"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "litblindur"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors",
      "word": "daltonico"
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    {
      "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": [
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        "noun"
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      "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": [
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      "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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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.