Meanings
comparative more blighted · superlative most blighted
- Having suffered a blight.
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.
2022 October 7, Arthur Augustyn, “Opinion: Stamford is a cultural hellhole. What do the people want?”, in Stamford Advocate, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2024Antonyms: unblighted
- Ruined, spoiled.
Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 13, lines 246–247Antonyms: unblighted
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of blight
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving suffered a blight.
adjectiveRuined, spoiled.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveaffected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
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blighted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blighted
“blighted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blighted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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