unblind
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To convert (a blind signature) back to the unblinded state (as opposed to the blinded state).
Transitive verb
verb
To cause (experimenters) to learn information which, for the purposes of avoiding bias, was previously unknown to them, or should be unknown to them, such as the knowledge of which patients received a drug and which a placebo.
adj
Not blind.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English blind English unblind From un- + blind.
Usage
Inflected Forms
unblinds (present, singular)
unblinding (participle, present)
unblinded (participle, past)
unblinded (past)
more unblind (comparative)
most unblind (superlative)