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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats