clear-sighted

[kleer-sahy-tid]

adjective

1. having clear or sharp eyesight.

2. having or marked by keen perception or sound judgment.

   a clear-sighted, analytical approach.

clear-sighted

adjective

1. involving accurate perception or judgment

   a clear-sighted compromise

2. having clear vision

Other Word Forms

• clear-sightedly adverb
• clear-sightedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of clear-sighted¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

But he adds: "We have to be very clear-sighted about who Donald Trump is and what he stands for."

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Prof Naomi Fulop, of the Covid 19 Bereaved Families for Justice, said the report was “hard-hitting and clear-sighted” and urged the government to adopt the recommendations.

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Along with the illusion that tax cuts increase revenue, the notion that authoritarian regimes are clear-sighted, clever and efficient is one of the more persistent canards in political pathology.

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Zelensky seems pretty much as he appears, and like a lot of actors he has a clear-sighted appreciation of himself and the limits of his abilities.

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He is remembered as a visionary because he was not clear-sighted about socialism’s incurable systemic disease: It cannot cope with the complexity of dispersed information in a developed nation.

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• reasonable 
• sane 
• sensible 
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• thorough