blindfolded

adjective

Definition of blindfoldednext
1
as in blindfold

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as in provincial

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
  1. blindfold
  2. provincial
  3. blinded
  4. insular
  5. blinkered
  6. parochial
  7. hidebound
  8. reactionary
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 government had spent the better part of a year, for instance, decentralizing its political and military bureaucracy so that provincial governors and military commanders could operate without instructions from top leaders.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Mamdani and Chow swapped notes on dealing with the constraints placed on them by their state and provincial governors, and on their respective battles over renters’ rights and the high costs of living in their cities.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of provincial
Adjective
  • 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
  • One of the critical risks to patient privacy is the accidental inclusion of personally identifiable information in what is supposed to be a blinded data payload.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Definition of blinded
Adjective
  • That rarely happens with Idaho’s insular faith-healing communities.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is designed as an action flick as well as a portrait of a family dealing with tragedy and an insider’s look at an insular community that mocks harmful stereotypes without perpetrating them.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 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
  • Since 2015, a flurry of cases has decided issues as parochial as how much individual athletes are paid out of broadcast revenues and how long student athletes are eligible to play.
    — Sen. Rand Paul OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Back then the age of discovery was at its peak, and startling new information about what had previously been a very parochial planet was flooding into the academies of Europe and the Americas.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 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
  • We’ll always be thought of as too conservative, too dumb, too reactionary, too violent by too many.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • My perspective and approach has been to try and be as measured as possible and not be as reactionary.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of reactionary

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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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