colour-blind

Questions about colour-blind

What does colour-blind mean?

colour-blind means "unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in colour-blind?

colour-blind has 3 syllables: co-lour--blind. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for colour-blind?

Close synonyms include color-blind, color-blind, nonracist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colour-blind a common word?

colour-blind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.