Usually means: Partially blind; lacking understanding, insight.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. purblind: Merriam-Webster
  2. purblind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purblind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purblind: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purblind: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purblind, purblind: Wordnik
  7. purblind: Wiktionary
  8. purblind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. purblind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. purblind: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Purblind, purblind: Dictionary.com
  12. purblind: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Purblind: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. purblind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. purblind: Rhymezone
  16. Purblind: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. purblind: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. purblind: FreeDictionary.org
  19. purblind: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. purblind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. purblind: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purblind: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purblind: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purblind: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purblind: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See purblindly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
adjective:  Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
adjective:  Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Completely blind.
adjective:  Having one eye blind.
adjective:  Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.
adjective:  (rare) Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
noun:  A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
verb:  (transitive, literary, often passive voice) To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.

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