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English

Adjective

blighted (comparative more blighted, superlative most blighted)

• Having caused to suffer a blight.
• Having suffered a blight.
  • ✤ Antonym: unblighted
  • ✤ The Glenbrook Community Center is in disrepair and has been closed for a number of years, which means it is the exact kind of dilapidated and blighted building CAVE People will do everything to protect.¹
• Ruined, spoiled.
  • ✤ Antonym: unblighted
  • ✤ Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears/The scathing thought of execrated years!²

Verb

blighted

• simple past and past participle of blight

Etymology

From blight + -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈblaɪtɪd/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -aɪtɪd
• Hyphenation: blight‧ed

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Footnotes

1. 2022 October 7, Arthur Augustyn, “Opinion: Stamford is a cultural hellhole. What do the people want?”, in Stamford Advocate ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 14 April 2024: ↩

2. 1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 13, lines 246–247: ↩