blighted
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈblaɪtɪd/
- Rhymes: -aɪtɪd
- Hyphenation: blight‧ed
Adjective
blighted (comparative more blighted, superlative most blighted)
- Having caused to suffer a blight.
- Having suffered a blight.
- Antonym: unblighted
- Ruined, spoiled.
- Antonym: unblighted
- 1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 13, lines 246–247:
- Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
Derived terms
- blightedly
- blighted ovum
- unblighted
Verb
blighted
- simple past and past participle of blight