Purblind

Definition: Purblind

Purblind

Adjective

1. Having greatly reduced vision.

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "purblind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Note: Purblind \Pur"blind`\, adjective. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and compare to Poreblind.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Purblind

Misjudgment

Adjective: misjudging; Verb: ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced; Verb: jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.

Crosswords: Purblind

Albanian

i verbër (blind, eyeless, gravel-blind, sightless), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), dritëshkurtër (mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, shortsighted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متبلد الذهن (blunt, brainless, thick-headed, thick-witted), ‏أعمى جزئيا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сляп (blind, eyeless, sightless, unreasoning, unseeing), силно късоглед, тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), без въображение (literal, unimaginative), почти сляп (gravel-blind). (various references)

Czech

slabozraký. (various references)

French

qui voit très mal, qui a une vue très faible, obtus, borné. (various references)

German

kurzsichtig (myopic, nearsighted, near-sighted, nearsightedly, shortsighted, short-sighted, short-sightedly). (various references)

Greek 

κουτόσ (dense, obtuse, stupid), σχεδόν τυφλόσ, μισοστραβόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

קש�" תפיס�" (dull, slow witted, thickwitted). (various references)

Hungarian

vaksi (blear-eyed, blind as a bat, gravel-blind, sand-blind, weak-eyed), rövidlátó (blear-eyed, myope, myopic, nearsighted, near-sighted, short-sighted), elvakult (rabid). (various references)

Italian

molto miope. (various references)

Manx

lieh-ghoal (dim-sighted, half-blind), giare-reayrtagh (myopic, near-sighted, short-sighted), doal-inchynagh (thick-skulled). (various references)

Pig Latin

urblindpay.(various references)

Portuguese

obtuso (blunt, dull, elephantine, obtuse, stupid, unpointed), míope (mope-eyed, myope, myopic, near-sighted, short-sighted), de vista curta (short-sighted), de visão limitada, de entendimento lento, de compreensão lenta (obtuse). (various references)

Romanian

cu vederea slabã, cu desãvârşire oarbã, îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, slender, slim, thin, tight). (various references)

Russian 

тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), недальновидный (blear-eyed, small minded), подслеповатый (mole-eyed, mope-eyed, sand-blind). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poluslep. (various references)

Spanish

medio ciego, ciego (blind, blind person, caecum, indiscriminate, sightless, unseeing). (various references)

Swedish

skumögd (sandblind, sand-blind). (various references)

Thai

ที่ตาบอ�" (คำหยาบ). (various references)

Turkish

yarı kör (owl-eyed), mankafa (blockhead, bonehead, bone-headed, chump, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, mutt, Numbskull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, saphead, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, soft, soft in the head, softhead, thickhead, thickheaded), dar görüşlü (hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, narrow minded, parochial, provincial, small minded, strait laced, untravelled), anlayışsız (blind, blunt, dim, inconsiderate, insensitive, undiscerning, unsympathetic). (various references)

Ukrainian

недалекоглядний (bat-eyed, short-sighted), підсліпуватий (mope-eyed, squinting, weak-eyed, weak-sighted). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mắt mờ, đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

Welsh

cibddall. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "purblind": purblindly, purblindness, purblindnesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: purlin, upbind.

-3 letters: blind, bruin, build, burin, lupin, lurid, purin, unbid, unrip.

-4 letters: bind, bird, birl, blin, blip, blur, brin, bund, burd, burl, burn, burp, dirl, drib, drip, drub, durn, nurd, nurl, pirn, puli, puri, purl, rind, ruin.

-5 letters: bid, bin, bud, bun, bur, dib, din, dip, dub, dui, dun, dup, lib, lid, lin.

+2 letters: purblindly.

+3 letters: blueprinted.

+4 letters: purblindness.

+5 letters: unpredictable, unpredictably.