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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having greatly reduced vision;
[syn: dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged]

2. lacking in insight or discernment;
- Example: "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"
- Example: "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
[syn: obtuse, purblind]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. [1913 Webster] The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer. [1913 Webster] O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] -- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

purblind adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near- blind, purblind, 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, purblind]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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