Purblind
['pɜːblaɪnd] or ['pɝ,blaɪnd]
Definition
(a.) Wholly blind.
(a.) Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dim-sighted, near-sighted, short-sighted, myopic.
Typist: Mag
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blinkard, owleyed, short-sighted
ANT:Eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynxeyed
Checker: Rudolph
Definition
adj. nearly blind near-sighted: (orig.) wholly blind.—adv. Pur′blindly.—n. Pur′blindness.
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Examples
- On the receipt of this note, which I have now in my possession, I got into a rage with old purblind Murray. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The purblind day was feebly struggling with the fog when I opened my eyes to encounter those of a dirty-faced little spectre fixed upon me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Amy's Adonis is a short, thick man, almost a mulatto, with little purblind eyes and straight, coarse, black hair; and his age at least five and forty. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And how is your poor purblind husband? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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