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Definition of Color-blind
1. Adjective. Unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors.
Similar to: Blind, Unsighted
Derivative terms: Color Blindness, Color Blindness
2. Adjective. Unprejudiced about race.
Definition of Color-blind
1. Adjective. Of a person or animal, unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green). ¹
2. Adjective. Of a person who hold no prejudice based on skin color, or of a process which precludes racial prejudice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Color-blind
Literary usage of Color-blind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"As a matter of fact, I distinctly state, in the very article he criticizes, that
at night the eye is not color-blind : " Colors are readily seen at night if ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"It is true that one-half the color-blind students had another name for the color
than green, and they might be needlessly alarmed if they were to discover ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In dichromatic vision (so-called red-green-blind), ihe partially color-blind
people see only two colors in the spectrum, yellow on the one side and blue on ..."
4. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"The color-blind who belong to this class fall into two or three groups, which
have been designated, under the influence of the Young-Helmholtz theory of ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"The color-blind who belong to this class fall into two or three groups, which
have been designated, under the influence of the Young-Helmholtz theory of ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"It seems from the examinations thus far made that tbe color-blind ... A most
intelligent color-blind man, whom I recently examined with the spectrum, ..."
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