blinkered

[ bling-kerd ]

adjective

1. narrow-minded and subjective; unwilling to understand another viewpoint:

   When in the Oval Office, Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government.

2. having blinkers on; fitted with blinkers:

   a blinkered racehorse.

ˈblinkered

/ ˈblɪŋkəd /

adjective

1. considering only a narrow point of view
2. (of a horse) wearing blinkers

Other Words From

• un·blinkered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of blinkered¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; blinker ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

This blinkered view of nature as a man’s world was conceived and promulgated by Victorian men who imposed their values and world view on animals, she says.

From Science News

Doing so reflects a blinkered understanding of how inequality operates and perpetuates itself.

From Nautilus

She alludes a lot to ambition and wanting fame, the kind of hard-nailed, blinkered ambition that drives actors and actresses.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, he carried on with his blinkered views and remained an isolationist.

From The Daily Beast

Paradoxically, the money boom engendered a religion boom—and religion of a particularly blinkered and aggressive sort.

From The Daily Beast

I trudge along like a traveller between high hedgerows; my heart is blinkered so that I am scarcely aware of landscapes.

From Project Gutenberg

But Telal was not so easily to be blinkered, and kept to his first judgment.

From Project Gutenberg

These blinkered letters, with only writing and no touch of live hands, convey so little.

From Project Gutenberg

The blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced.

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