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farsighted

[ fahr-sahy-tid, -sahy-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
seeing to a great distance.
wise, as in foreseeing future developments:
a farsighted statesman.
Synonyms: prescient, foresighted, perspicacious, prudent, discerning, farseeing

First recorded in 1635–45; far + sight + -ed ³

Is this neurosis, narcissism, or the farsighted wisdom that allows a fellow to win three hundred games?

He has received international recognition for his expertise and farsighted contributions to the mobile industry since 2005.

Philopœmen was farsighted enough to see from the beginning that the Roman alliance would prove bad for Greece.

The farsighted Indian had destroyed the trail made by the one who lived as he had crept from the scene.

Does he not consider them as farsighted and energetic as the others he has pompously mentioned with such childish illusion.

The eyeball of a farsighted person is very short, and the retina is too close to the crystalline lens.

Farsighted, purposeful Germany fought four and a half years upon the strength of great power plants run by the snows of the Alps.

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