purblind

1. 1.

   having greatly reduced vision

   Synonymsdim-sightednear-blindsand-blindvisually impairedvisually challenged

   Similarblind
2. 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”

   Synonymsobtuse

   Similarundiscerning

Other forms of purblind

comparative

purblinder·

superlative

purblindest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about purblind

What does purblind mean?

purblind means "having greatly reduced vision". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purblind?

purblind has 2 syllables: pur-blind. The stress falls on "pur".

What is another word for purblind?

Close synonyms include dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purblind a common word?

purblind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.