blighted Definition

blight
noun

1. A fungal disease of plants that usually attacks an entire crop, or (in compounds) one specific crop throughout a particular region.

Example: potato blight
2. A fungus that causes blight.
3. Something or someone that has a damaging, distressing, or destructive effect on something, or that spoils it.

Thesaurus: disease, affliction, bane, evil, pestilence, plague, scourge, contamination, decay; Antonym: blessing, boon.
Form: cast a blight on something (especially)
4a. An ugly, decayed or neglected state or condition;

Example: urban blight
4b. A district (usually an urban district) in such a condition.

verb blighted, blighting

1. To affect with blight.
2. To harm or destroy.
3. To disappoint or frustrate.

Example: All our hopes were blighted

Derivative: blighted
adj

Etymology: 17c.