myope

British  

/ ˈmaɪəʊp /

noun

1. any person afflicted with myopia

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Etymology

Origin of myope

C18: via French from Greek muōps; see _myopia

Example Sentences

And since the perception of details depends vastly upon the quality of eyesight, a landscape necessarily suggests less to the keen-sighted man than to the myope.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

His face, which was clean shaven, was the face of a hawk, with the contracted myope vision characteristic of that bird.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

Still, it does not follow that the myope necessarily possesses the poetic faculty or feeling;—neither does it imply that the presbyope necessarily lacks it.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

Thus, according to Flaubert, the myope looks at things one after another and describes details, while Hearn says the exact opposite.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

Then he can dissect beetles like Straus Derekheim, without becoming a myope.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various