hyperopic
- a word derived from hyperopia.
Example Sentences
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From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted."
From Time Magazine Archive
If you're farsighted, or hyperopic, on the other hand, the focal point for distant objects is fine, while the one for close sources actually falls behind the retina.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No specialist ever told me I was hyperopic," he came back.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
In the farsighted or hyperopic eye, the eyeball is usually too short for the rays to be properly focused on the sensitive nerve area in the back of the eye.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
If a hyperopic writer suddenly becomes myopic, his manner of thinking, and consequently of writing, at once is modified.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
