purblind
Meanings
Plural: purblinds
Adjective Satellite
- having greatly reduced vision
- lacking in insight or discernment; ; - Jasper Griffin
- "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"
Adj
- Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
- Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
- Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
- Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
- Completely blind.
- Having one eye blind.
- Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.
- Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
Noun
- A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
Verb
- To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English purblind (“(adjective) completely blind; blind in one eye; near-sighted; (noun) near-sighted animal, specifically a hare”) [and other forms], possibly from pur, pure (“completely, entirely”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean; pure”); influenced by pur- (prefix meaning ‘completely; forward; in advance’)) + blind (“sightless, blind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up; to make cloudy or opaque”)).
Sense 4.1 (“completely blind”) was the original sense. The senses denoting partial blindness are possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology. (Compare parboil regarding per versus pars.)
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, bisson, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-sighted, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-sighted, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moonblind, mope-eyed, moronic, muttonheaded, near-blind, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, purblinded, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sand-blind, sandblind, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, visually challenged, visually impaired, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded
Antonyms
brainless, dumb, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, insensible, lowbrow, mindless, stupid, unintelligent, witless
Scrabble Score: 13
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