blond – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of blond

Adjective: blond

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeblonder
Superlativeblondest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore blond
Superlativemost blond

Sample Sentences

  • blond hair
  • blond ale
  • blond beer
  • She has a blond complexion, with brown hair and gray eyes. [1914, “American Anthropologist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • If you're going one or two shades lighter, don't even touch your brows. But if you're making a big change, soften them by tinting them with home haircolor: a lighter shade of brown for blonder shades, a golden shade if you're dyeing your hair red. [2011 Feb, “Beauty Confessions”, in Redbook, volume 216, number 2, page 60:]
  • He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin. [1956, James Baldwin, chapter 2, in Giovanni's Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2:]
  • Blonde bombshells have been around since the beginning of time, but lately, stars have really been stepping up their golden-haired game. [2012 Jan, “The Best Blonde Hair Color in Hollywood”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2012:]
  • “She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles. [2010, Mariah Stewart, Moon Dance, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:]
  • Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down. [2002, Michael Jay, The Altherian Code, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 118:]

Adjectives inflected like blond

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). See more at blend.
2. An alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).

Verbs referencing "blond"

Latin Adjectives blondus.