Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unable to see distant objects clearly; myopic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Short-sighted; seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
near-sighted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unable to see distant objects clearly
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Examples
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And the fact that almost all of you don't -- Ed Begley Jr. notwithstanding -- your political hysteria makes you out to be highly immoral laugh riots in the eyes of those with even partial eyesight (I am very nearsighted, which is hereditary).
Greg Gutfeld: Exclusive: Gutfeld's Review of An Inconvenient Truth 2008
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You say in your book that shareholders are mostly "nearsighted".
John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces 2008
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He was kind of nearsighted, Hezzy was, and when Martha was fightin 'to get a place in front of a bargain counter he stayed astern and kept his eyes fixed on a hat she was wearin'.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Billy's kind of nearsighted at that, so I'm mortal afraid he'll make a mistake one of these nights and take some honest man's money and trinkets away from him. "
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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But, despite the rise of the internet and all the recent negative attitudes towards travel writing, to predict the death of the genre seems to me as nearsighted as believing that this country's pioneering travel bookshop has come to the end of its useful life.
It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs 2011
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I am slightly nearsighted and wear contacts to help me see at a distance while hunting and when I'm shooting my bow.
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Solomon: Your new documentary, "Reagan," which makes its premiere on HBO on Feb. 7 in honor of the president's 100th birthday, includes some wonderful footage of Reagan as a small-town lifeguard, a handsome figure in his swimming trunks who happened to be severely nearsighted.
New York Times Barely Touches Reagan's 100th; Unflattering When It Does Clay Waters 2011
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I am slightly nearsighted and wear contacts to help me see at a distance while hunting and when I'm shooting my bow.
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I can't say whether I would have noticed this, being so nearsighted while swimming laps.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The country cannot afford to allow anyone as politically nearsighted as she in the Whitehouse, and you right-wing extremists will surely try to put her there.
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