blighted

6.5

Damaged so places like fields and neighborhoods cannot grow or improve

adjective
/ˈblaɪtɪd/

: afectado

The farmers struggled to grow crops on the blighted land after the pest invasion.

Examples

Think of the blighted lies and sheer miserable waste that that statistic represents.
Her young life had been blighted by the dissolution of her mother's marriage and the King's subsequent actions.
I thank you that you have been brave enough to reach out your hands to the crushed and blighted of my race, I thank you.
It is our protection against ever being blighted in that way again.
They're demolishing Home Firth indoor market, we're blighted by litter and fly tipping and now they're proposing to chop down mature trees in urban areas.
Many neighborhoods suffer from blighted buildings that have been abandoned for years.
The garden was filled with blighted plants that could not survive the harsh winter.

Antonyms

prosperous

83 4.1

Doing well and having a lot of money

thriving

6 3.8

Growing and very successful, like a busy café or arts scene

How Damaged

ruined

1 3.1

blighted

6.5

damaged

1 1.1

impaired

49 4.4

Surface Forms

blighted positive

Morphology

blighted = blight (transparent) = blight + ed

Formed by the verb 'blight' plus the adjectival/past participle suffix '-ed', meaning 'affected by blight'.

Etymology

Blighted comes from an old word meaning 'to wither' or 'dry up'. So think of a plant that stops growing and looks ruined, which helps you remember why blighted now means damaged, spoiled, or failing to grow.