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  Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind.
     See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]
     1. Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."
        --Shak.
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     2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a
        purblind eye; a purblind mole.
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              The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from
              heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer.
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              O purblind race of miserable men.     --Tennyson.
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        Pur"blind`ness, n.
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  purblind
       adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near-blind,
               sand-blind, visually impaired, visually
              challenged]
       2: 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 [syn: obtuse]

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "purblind":
     authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, blind,
     blindfold, blindfolded, borne, closed, constricted, cramped,
     creedbound, dark, deaf, deaf to reason, dim, dim-eyed, dim-sighted,
     dull-sighted, fanatical, feeble-eyed, filmy-eyed, gravel-blind,
     half-blind, hidebound, illiberal, imperceptive, impercipient,
     insensible, insular, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
     mean-spirited, mind-blind, mole-eyed, myopic, narrow,
     narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
     nearsighted, nonunderstanding, parochial, petty, provincial,
     sand-blind, shortsighted, sightless, small, small-minded,
     straitlaced, stuffy, unapprehending, uncatholic, uncharitable,
     uncomprehending, undiscerning, ungenerous, unliberal, unperceptive,
     weak-eyed