blindest

1. 1
   adjective

   Superlative of blind.

   Love makes even the sharpest minds the blindest to obvious warning signs.

   He was the blindest of the three patients before surgery restored some of his sight.

   Note

   A superlative that fits most naturally with the figurative meaning of blind, failing to recognize or perceive, because that meaning is readily graded: blind to warning signs, blinder, blindest. With literal sight it ranks degrees of partial vision. The same spelling also serves as the archaic verb form, so in thou blindest me it is a verb, not a comparison.

2. 2
   verbarchaic

   Second-person singular simple present indicative of blind.

   Thou blindest me with thy sudden brilliance, my lord.

   Every falsehood thou blindest thyself with leads thee further astray.

   Note

   The verb ending English once used with thou: thou blindest, alongside thou seest or thou knowest. It belongs to archaic or deliberately old-fashioned writing. It can carry any of the verb's senses, from dazzling the eyes to obscuring the understanding, as in thou blindest thyself with falsehood. Modern English says you blind. Use this form only when the whole passage keeps to the thou register.

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