Dictionary 1. (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.2. (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. 3. (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited. 4. (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. 5. (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. 6. (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. 7. (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. 8. (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. 9. (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. 10. (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. 11. (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. 12. (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. 13. (n.) Aim; shot; range. 14. (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. 15. (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 16. (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank; the six blank. 17. (v. t.) To make void; to annul. 18. (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. Thesaurus Olympian absence absolute aloof arid awayness backward bald bare barren bashful bewildered black blah bland blankminded bleached blind blind-alley bloodless box calm cecal characterless chasm chilled chilly chirograph choked choked off clean slate clear closed cold colorless complete confused constrained constricted contracted cool dazed dead dead-end deadpan deprivation detached devoid discomfited disconcerted discreet dismal distant docket document dossier downright draggy drearisome dreary dry dryasdust dull dusty effete elephantine emotionless emptiness empty empty space empty-headed empty-minded empty-pated empty-skulled etiolated expressionless fade fatuous featureless file fishy flat forbidding form frigid frosty glassy guarded heavy helpless ho-hum hollow holograph icy impassive impersonal inaccessible inane inanity incogitant inexcitable inexpressive insipid instrument introverted jejune lack leaden legal document legal instrument legal paper lifeless line low-spirited mindless modest naked neverness nil nirvanic nonexistence nonoccurrence nonplussed nonpresence nothing nothingness nowhereness nude null null and void oblivious official document offish out-and-out overlook oversight pale pallid paper papers parchment passive pedestrian perfect perplexed personal file plain plodding pointless poker-faced poky ponderous preterition pure quietistic rattlebrained rattleheaded regular relaxed remote removed repressed reserved restrained reticent retiring roll scatterbrained scrip script scroll sheer shrinking shut skip slow solemn space spiritless squeezed shut standoff standoffish stark sterile stiff stodgy straight-out strangulated stuffy subdued subtraction superficial suppressed tabula rasa tasteless tedious thoughtfree thoughtless tranquil unadorned unadulterated unaffable unapproachable unarrayed uncomplicated uncongenial undecked undecorated undemonstrative undressed unembellished unexpansive unexpressive unfurbished ungarnished ungenial unideaed unintellectual unlively unmixed unoccupied unopen unopened unornamented unqualified unreasoning unrelieved unsophisticated unthinking untrimmed unvarnished unvented unventilated utter vacant vacuous vacuum vapid void want white with nothing inside withdrawn without content wooden writ writing zero |