purblind
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1 purblind
Having greatly reduced vision.
synoniemen: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired.
Roget 443: dim-sighted etc. n.; myopic, presbyopic†; astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous†; ... meer laten zien
Roget 481: misjudging etc. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced etc. v.; jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial. ... meer laten zien
Pools: niedowidzący, słabowidzący, półślepy
2 purblind
Lacking in insight or discernment:
— A purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin.
synoniem: obtuse.
Pools: nieprzenikliwy
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: 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 ... meer laten zien.
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