blinder

adj

1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of blind: more blind

   “Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.”

noun

1. Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
2. (often, plural, plural-only)Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

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

3. Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

   “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.”

   “As it was, innocence was his blinder.”

   “I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders”

4. (British, slang)Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

   “He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.”

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

5. (slang)Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

   “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. Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

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

verb

1. (transitive)To fit (a horse) with blinders.
2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive)To obstruct the vision of.

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

   “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.”