Definitions for purblind

purblind pur·blind

Spelling: [pur-blahynd]
IPA: /ˈpɜrˌblaɪnd/

Purblind is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in purblind (bdilnpru).

Definitions for purblind

adjective

  1. nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
  2. slow or deficient in understanding, imagination, or vision.
  3. Obsolete. totally blind.

Origin of purblind

1250-1300; Middle English pur blind completely blind; see pure (in obsolete adv. sense), blind

Examples for purblind

There was something timid and purblind in the view they had of the world.

Where Peel was strong and penetrating, Palmerston was weak and purblind.

Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him.

By agreement of all but the purblind and the paradoxer, Shakespeare.

In these times a man may as well be purblind, as unable to read--lame, as unable to write.

Precisely, or else for a purblind person, as the case may be.

He gazes at her face with the eager intentness of the purblind.

When she had gone, Mrs. purblind and I breathed more freely.

“Well, this life is too much for me,” murmured Mrs. purblind drearily.

Mrs. purblind insists I did not do that, exactly, but that I got rid of her.

Word Value for purblind
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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