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Definition of Colour-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 Colour-blind
1. Adjective. Of a person or animal, unable to distinguish between two or more primary colours (usually red and green). ¹
2. Adjective. Of a person who hold no prejudice based on skin colour, or of a process which precludes racial prejudice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour-blind
Literary usage of Colour-blind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"colour-blind officers are granted the higher certificate, which is simply endorsed "
This officer has failed in colours; " and the fact that he is ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"We cannot of course tell what are the actual sensations of the colour-blind; no
man can tell what are the sensations of his fellow man; but a person who ..."
3. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"The application of this fact to the colour-blind cases is obvious. In the one
class, the red-blind of the Young-Helmholtz theory, the relations of the ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"Adding to these the female children who were examined, a total is obtained of
3819, among whom there were 16 colour-blind individuals, or 0.42 per cent. ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"To the colour-blind, on the other hand, the conterminous shadows appear as one
as soon as all the differences in illumination have been equalised, ..."
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