Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind.
See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]
1. Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."
--Shak.
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2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a
purblind eye; a purblind mole.
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The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from
heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer.
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O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
purblind
adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near-blind,
sand-blind, visually impaired, visually
challenged]
2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the
implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that
flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: obtuse]
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "purblind":
authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, blind,
blindfold, blindfolded, borne, closed, constricted, cramped,
creedbound, dark, deaf, deaf to reason, dim, dim-eyed, dim-sighted,
dull-sighted, fanatical, feeble-eyed, filmy-eyed, gravel-blind,
half-blind, hidebound, illiberal, imperceptive, impercipient,
insensible, insular, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, mind-blind, mole-eyed, myopic, narrow,
narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
nearsighted, nonunderstanding, parochial, petty, provincial,
sand-blind, shortsighted, sightless, small, small-minded,
straitlaced, stuffy, unapprehending, uncatholic, uncharitable,
uncomprehending, undiscerning, ungenerous, unliberal, unperceptive,
weak-eyed
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dim-sighted, near-blind, obtuse, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired
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