blank
Forms
- Comparative
- blanker
- Superlative
- blankest
- Plural
- blanks
Definitions
1.Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank.
2.Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.
3.Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- There was a look of blank terror on his face.
4.Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
1.The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim.
2.A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
3.An empty space; a void, for example on a paper.
- Write your answers in the blanks.
4.A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #5013
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).