Definitions for blinkered

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blinkered blink·ered

Spelling: [bling-kerd]

IPA: /ˈblɪŋ kərd/

Blinkered is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in blinkered (bdeeiklnr).

Definitions for blinkered

noun

1. a device for flashing light signals.
2. a light that flashes intermittently, especially one that serves as a traffic signal.
3. either of two leather flaps on a bridle, to prevent a horse from seeing sideways; a blinder.

adjective

1. narrow-minded and subjective; unwilling to understand another viewpoint.
2. having blinkers on; fitted with blinkers.

verb (used with object)

1. to put blinkers on.

Origin of blinkered

First recorded in 1630-40; blink + -er¹

Examples for blinkered

But Telal was not so easily to be blinkered, and kept to his first judgment.

I trudge along like a traveller between high hedgerows; my heart is blinkered so that I am scarcely aware of landscapes.

Instead, he carried on with his blinkered views and remained an isolationist.

These blinkered letters, with only writing and no touch of live hands, convey so little.

She alludes a lot to ambition and wanting fame, the kind of hard-nailed, blinkered ambition that drives actors and actresses.

The blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced.