Blank Definition

blăngk
blanked, blankest, blanking, blanks, blanker
adjective
blankest, blanker
Devoid of writing, images, or marks.
A blank wall; a blank screen.
American Heritage
Colorless or white.
Webster's New World
Containing no information; unrecorded or erased.
A blank tape; a blank diskette.
American Heritage
Not written, recorded, etc. on; not marked; empty.
A blank sheet of paper, a blank tape.
Webster's New World
Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in.
A blank questionnaire.
American Heritage
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noun
blanks
An empty space or place, especially an empty space on a document to be filled in.
American Heritage
An empty space, esp. one to be filled in on a printed form, school test, etc.
Webster's New World
A document with one or more such spaces.
American Heritage
A printed form or document with such empty spaces.
Webster's New World
Something without information or thought.
When I read that question on the test, my mind was a blank.
American Heritage
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verb
blanked, blanking, blanks
To remove, as from view; obliterate.
American Heritage
To hold (an opponent) scoreless in a game.
Webster's New World
To block access to.
Blank off a subway tunnel.
American Heritage
To stamp with a die from flat stock.
Webster's New World
To prevent (an opponent) from scoring.
American Heritage
idiom
blank out
  • to cancel or obscure by covering over; void
Webster's New World
draw a blank
  • to draw a lottery ticket that fails to win
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Blank

Noun

Singular:
blank
Plural:
blanks

Adjective

Base Form:
blank
Comparative:
blanker
Superlative:
blankest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Blank

Origin of Blank

  • 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 *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), English blink, blind. See also blink, blind, and blanch.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English white, having spaces to be filled in from Old French blanc white of Germanic origin bhel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Blank Sentence Examples

  • She gave him a blank look.

  • Jessi poured herself more coffee, eyes going to the blank iPad calendar.

  • The computer screen before him was blank, but he didn't notice.

  • Jonny's eyes were open and blank, his face pale.

  • The box is blank.

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Words Starting With

BBLBLA

Words Ending With

KNKANK

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