adjective
definition
Partially blind.
definition
Near-sighted or dim-sighted.
definition
Lacking in discernment or understanding.
synonyms
Examples of purblind in a Sentence
An equally significant hint, that the Ionian Isles might easily be regained by France, further helped to open the eyes of the purblind Addington ministry to the resolve of Napoleon to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
A rigid orthodoxy is sustained by means of purblind imitation assisted by no little persecution.
But the dean saw a ray of hope out of those purblind old eyes of his.
In Sybil were exhibited the social relations of rich and poor (the "two nations") under this regime, and under changes in which, while the peasantry were neglected by a shoddy aristocracy ignorant of its duties, factory life and a purblind gospel of political economy imbruted the rest of the population.