BLINDFOLDED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

blindfolded

adjective

Definition of blindfolded

as in blindfold

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Recent Examples of blindfolded Kittleson was zip-tied, blindfolded, and moved to multiple locations during her captivity. — Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 23 Apr. 2026 Vatu took the loss on this challenge, which saw nearly every member of each tribe blindfolded and led through an obstacle course by one non-blindfolded member. — Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 11 Mar. 2026 In the next frame, the fictional father — bound, blindfolded and kneeling on a muddy battlefield — is approached by a soldier, and shot in the head. — Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026 Over the past 15 years, he has been imprisoned, blindfolded, interrogated, and put under house arrest with a 20-year ban on making films. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blindfolded

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Adjective

Anika Reed Was the blindfold the biggest trend of the Met Gala?

— Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 20 May 2026
The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.

— Shelby Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of blindfold

Adjective

The meaning of this term—put by Hemingway into the mouth of his mentor and teacher Gertrude Stein, rather unpoetically, at a gas station in provincial France—is disputed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026
The ministry oversees a range of provincial and national-level bureaus, including for intelligence gathering.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of provincial

Adjective

On day 29, all participants receive the alternative intervention so that every participant is offered a candidate vaccine while allowing the comparison between groups to remain blinded.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
Fake controversies that always tilt against one specific viewpoint and ideology that they are too blinded to understand.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026

Definition of blinded

Adjective

Following the release of ChatGPT in 2022, OpenAI’s founding team found themselves on the other side of overnight fame—at least in the insular tech bubble of the Bay Area.

— Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 2 Nov. 2026
Every aspect of the program has been more insular and closed off.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of insular

Adjective

And by a blinkered nonrecognition of the animus behind Noem’s action.

— George F. Will, Washington Post, 26 June 2026
The conflict looms large over the film’s Kosovar Albanian teens — as does institutionalized discrimination against them — but Basholli’s intentionally blinkered focus, through the eyes of her 13-year-old protagonist, proves constraining and liberating all at once.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026

Definition of blinkered

Adjective

And yet, bizarrely, what seems like an entirely parochial story will surely have legs worldwide.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
The pair led an aggressive recruitment effort and injected parochial, populist policy proposals into its traditionally moderate platform.

— Spencer Kimball,Garrett Downs,Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Justin Papp, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of parochial

Adjective

Both were in their thirties, and saw themselves as innovative leaders cutting through hidebound bureaucracies.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
The discipline and economy of Rosenwald’s philanthropy also provide a chastening contrast to our current hidebound efforts to help people.

— Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of hidebound

Adjective

Everyone but damn Victor is playing in a real reactionary way.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Surprisingly, for a painting often dismissed as conservative and reactionary, some of the first adopters of its form were Black urban artists who saw the painting in Chicago in the 1930s.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of reactionary

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