blank – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of blank

Adjective: blank

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeblanker
Superlativeblankest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore blank
Superlativemost blank

Sample Sentences

  • To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd, [1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 656–657:]
  • blank paper
  • a blank check
  • a blank ballot
  • a blank CD
  • Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank. [2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:]
  • a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
  • Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.
  • a blank refusal to cooperate
  • There was a look of blank terror on his face.
  • Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
  • a blank glassy look
  • Adam […] Aſtonied ſtood and Blank, [1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 888–890:]
  • a blank day
  • The shock left his memory blank.
  • The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise.

Adjectives inflected like blank

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

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”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc. See: German Adjectives 'blank', Spanish Adjectives 'blanco'.

Verbs referencing "blank"

Spanish Adjectives blanco.