different between blinder vs blinkered

English

Etymology

From blind +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bla?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bla?nd?/

Adjective

blinder

1. comparative form of blind: more blind

Noun

blinder (plural blinders)

1. Something that blinds.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15, [1]

     As it was, innocence was his blinder.

2. A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
3. A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
   • 1969, Kenzabur? ?e, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,

     From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.

   • 1978 Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207,

     Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.

4. (Britain, slang) An exceptional performance.

   He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.

   • 1992, Glyn Maxwell, "Out of the Rain" in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 91,

     And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out

5. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
   • 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [2]

     If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.

6. (theater) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
   • 1992, The Lighting Journal (page 9)

     When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]

Synonyms

• (horse's blindfold): blinker, winker
• (exceptional performance): cracker

Translations

Verb

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)

1. (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
2. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
   • 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,

     […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky

   • 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, p. 248,

     They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.

Anagrams

• Brindle, brindle

French

Etymology

From blinde +? -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bl??.de/

Verb

blinder

1. to armor; to reinforce

Conjugation

Derived terms

• blindage

Descendants

• ? Italian: blindare
• ? Spanish: blindar

Further reading

• “blinder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?nd?/

Adjective

blinder

1. comparative degree of blind

Adjective

blinder

1. inflection of blind:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Adjective

blinder

1. blind
2. invisible, obscure

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: blind

Welsh

Etymology

From blin +? -der.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?bl?nd?r/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?bl?ndar/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?bl?nd?r/

Noun

blinder m (plural blinderau)

1. (uncountable) tiredness, weariness, fatigue
2. (countable) trouble, affliction

Derived terms

• blinderog (“weary, tired”)
• blinderus (“wearisome, tiring; troublesome, troubling”)

Mutation

English

Adjective

blinkered (comparative more blinkered, superlative most blinkered)

1. Wearing blinkers or blinders.
2. (figuratively) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one.

Translations

Verb

blinkered

1. simple past tense and past participle of blinker