BLIGHTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blighted mean? 

• BLIGHTED (adjective)
  The adjective BLIGHTED has 1 sense:

1. affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

  Familiarity information: BLIGHTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLIGHTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

Synonyms:

blighted; spoilt

Context example:

blighted urban districts

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

I cannot believe his prospects so blighted for ever.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That woman, who has so abused your long- suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It blighted his spirits for days, and when it had all gone from my mind it was brought back to me by his manner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It passed by the blighted beech there,” said Alleyne, pointing, “and the hounds were hard at its heels.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted—confidence destroyed!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was indeed a stricken and a blighted country, and a man might have ridden from Auvergne in the north to the marches of Foix, nor ever seen a smiling village or a thriving homestead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)