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View synonyms for purblind

purblind

[ pur-blahynd ]

adjective

  1. nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
  2. slow or deficient in understanding, imagination, or vision.
  3. Obsolete. totally blind.


purblind

/ ˈpɜːˌblaɪnd /

adjective

  1. partly or nearly blind
  2. lacking in insight or understanding; obtuse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • purblindly adverb
  • purblindness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of purblind1

1250–1300; Middle English pur blind completely blind; pure (in obsolete adv. sense), blind
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Word History and Origins

Origin of purblind1

C13: see pure , blind ; compare parboil
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Synonym Study

See blind.
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Example Sentences

Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him.

By a strange fatality, they were generally purblind, and always shyed most fearfully when an Opposition coach approached them.

This excited great merriment: Captain Ezekiel was an aged, purblind man, who leaned on a cane.

“Sh-sh-sh,” said the doctor, running his forefinger along to guide his purblind eyes safely to the end of the paragraph.

Often the man is also the victim of the purblind social customs which make sex-knowledge tabu.

Could aught in this petty purblind existence of ours redeem it and exalt it so: her love, this pure sweet girl's, and mine.

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