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🚫 Narrow-minded 🐴 Wearing eye covers 🐴 To put on blinkers
to blinkered

to blinkered

8.8
To put eye covers on a horse or to make someone ignore other ideas
  • verb
  • /ˈblɪŋkərd/
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  • The trainer blinkered the horse to help it focus during the race.

Examples

  • Some leaders have blinkered their teams by ignoring new ideas.

  • The horse was blinkered to prevent it from getting distracted.

  • He felt his upbringing had blinkered him to other cultures.

  • He felt blinkered by his own beliefs.

  • The trainer blinkered the horse so it would not be distracted by the crowd during the race.

  • Some managers have blinkered their employees by refusing to consider innovative suggestions.

  • He realized that his upbringing had blinkered him, preventing him from appreciating diverse perspectives.

Synonyms

to blinker
vsto blinkered
1 9.2

To put leather flaps on a horse's bridle so it cannot see to the side

restricts thinking or options broadly rather than only blocking sight

How Restrictive

to blind
104 3.7
blindfold
3.0
to blinkered
8.8
to restrict
361 3.1
to limit
∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

blinkered infinitive
blinkered past
blinkered past participle
blinkering present participle
blinkers third person singular

Morphology

blinkered = blinker (transparent) = blink + er + ed

The verb form is the past/past-participle of 'to blinker' (to fit with blinkers), so the morphology is regular inflectional '-ed' on the verb base.

Etymology

Blinkered (as a verb) comes from putting blinkers ('eye-pieces') on a horse to stop side sight, and it also means to limit someone's ability to see or consider other options. So, to be blinkered is to be made to focus narrowly or to be kept from seeing alternatives.