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.
Alexander Pope