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Blissful: Definition and part of speech

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Blissful

  1. a. Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blight: Definition and part of speech

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Blight

  1. n. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
  2. v. t. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
  3. v. t. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one’s prospects.
  4. v. i. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
  5. n. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; — applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
  6. n. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
  7. n. That which frustrates one’s plans or withers one’s hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
  8. n. A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; — also applied to several other injurious insects.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blind: Definition and part of speech

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Blind

  1. a. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
  2. a. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
  3. a. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
  4. a. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
  5. a. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
  6. a. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
  7. a. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
  8. a. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
  9. n. A halting place.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blinding: Definition and part of speech

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Blinding

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Blind
  2. a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.