Associations to the word «Purblind»
Wiktionary
PURBLIND, adjective. Partially blind.
PURBLIND, adjective. Near-sighted or dim-sighted.
PURBLIND, adjective. Lacking in discernment or understanding.
Dictionary definition
PURBLIND, adjective. Having greatly reduced vision.
PURBLIND, adjective. 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.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.