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单词 purblind
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Definition of purblind in English:

purblind

adjective ˈpəːblʌɪndˈpərblaɪnd
literary
  • 1Having impaired or defective vision; partially blind.

    视力差(或有缺陷)的,半盲的

    Synonyms
    visually impaired, unsighted, sightless, visionless, unseeing, stone blind, eyeless
    1. 1.1 Slow or unable to understand; dim-witted.
      〈喻〉迟钝的,愚笨的,傻的
      something is fundamentally wrong, as even the most purblind apologists must surely come to recognize
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
      • Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
      • He was probably unsuited to the intricate problems he faced, as temperamentally - and despite being purblind - he was a fighting general not a diplomat.
      • It is fascinating to play someone so purblind to the consequences of what he is doing and so convinced of his own abilities.
      • That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
      • The only defeat owed more to a purblind referee than any deficiencies in our play.
      • Othello, though decently acted by Keith David, needs to be of more heroic stature, more purblind nobility, and, eventually, of more pitiable, poetic grandeur than mere competence can summon.
      • Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
      • Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it.
      • To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant.
      • There's the purblind betrayal of stern poetics.
      • But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat.
      • As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters.
      • Western politicians' fears represented wise caution in dealing with a revisionist power, not merely purblind class interest as Carley would have us believe.
      • Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
      • Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.
      • Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians.
      • We do not set out to blame all bikers for being daredevils on two wheels who ride far too fast; we do not set out to accuse all car drivers of being purblind occupiers of lethal tin boxes.
      • Wrecked roofs lie smashed in, as if they'd come underfoot of a Leviathan; whole houses, gutted and disemboweled by mindlessly purblind Minenwerfer projectiles.
      • But is not the use of the cultural Other as a catalyst for one's own transcendent function a selfish, purblind appropriation, acting, against rather than for, crosscultural understanding?

Derivatives

  • purblindness

  • noun ˈpəːblʌɪndnəsˈpərˌblaɪnd
    literary
    • There are developmental problems: purblindness, other kinds of developmental problems.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In exile, the dissident was not going to let such purblindness happen again.
      • The devastation of our merchant marine, predicted as long ago as 1905, has happened - not through war, but, rather, official purblindness.

Origin

Middle English (as two words in the sense 'completely blind'): from the adverb pure 'utterly' (later assimilated to pur-) + blind.

Definition of purblind in US English:

purblind

adjectiveˈpərblaɪndˈpərblīnd
literary
  • 1Having impaired or defective vision.

    视力差(或有缺陷)的,半盲的

    Synonyms
    visually impaired, unsighted, sightless, visionless, unseeing, stone blind, eyeless
    1. 1.1 Slow or unable to understand; dimwitted.
      〈喻〉迟钝的,愚笨的,傻的
      something is fundamentally wrong, as even the most purblind apologists must surely come to recognize
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat.
      • Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.
      • Wrecked roofs lie smashed in, as if they'd come underfoot of a Leviathan; whole houses, gutted and disemboweled by mindlessly purblind Minenwerfer projectiles.
      • To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant.
      • Western politicians' fears represented wise caution in dealing with a revisionist power, not merely purblind class interest as Carley would have us believe.
      • It is fascinating to play someone so purblind to the consequences of what he is doing and so convinced of his own abilities.
      • Othello, though decently acted by Keith David, needs to be of more heroic stature, more purblind nobility, and, eventually, of more pitiable, poetic grandeur than mere competence can summon.
      • Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
      • He was probably unsuited to the intricate problems he faced, as temperamentally - and despite being purblind - he was a fighting general not a diplomat.
      • That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
      • Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it.
      • As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters.
      • There's the purblind betrayal of stern poetics.
      • Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
      • Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
      • We do not set out to blame all bikers for being daredevils on two wheels who ride far too fast; we do not set out to accuse all car drivers of being purblind occupiers of lethal tin boxes.
      • The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
      • Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians.
      • But is not the use of the cultural Other as a catalyst for one's own transcendent function a selfish, purblind appropriation, acting, against rather than for, crosscultural understanding?
      • The only defeat owed more to a purblind referee than any deficiencies in our play.

Origin

Middle English (as two words in the sense ‘completely blind’): from the adverb pure ‘utterly’ (later assimilated to pur-) + blind.

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