This week’s theme
Words that have changed

This week’s words
ingenuous
specious
purblind
feisty
officious

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PUHR-blynd)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Partially blind.
2. Lacking in understanding, insight, or vision.

ETYMOLOGY:

From pure + blind, meaning completely blind. Over time, the sense shifted to partially blind. Earliest documented use: 1300.

USAGE:

“Robots themselves cannot see very well. And people are understandably wary of purblind contraptions bumping into them willy-nilly in the street or at home.”
Eye Robot; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 23, 2010.

“The Administration had wanted to arm, and a purblind Congress wouldn’t vote the money.”
Upton Sinclair; A World to Win; Viking; 1946.

See more usage examples of purblind in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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