nearsighted

[neer-sahy-tid, -sahy-]

adjective

1. seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.

2. shortsighted.

Other Word Forms

• nearsightedly adverb
• nearsightedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nearsighted¹

First recorded in 1680–90; near + sight + -ed ³

Example Sentences

That was the path he had chosen: to die to all who knew him, and to all he knew—his devoted wife, his bumbling, nearsighted son, his palatial home, his vast fortune.

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She thought of how nearsighted Lord Fredrick was, how prone to shoot first and figure out what sort of prey he had bagged later.

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Though he’s been publicly coy, Newsom has been effectively running for president for the better part of a year, something even the most nearsighted observer can see.

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A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.

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And when he grew up and he was a stutterer and he was nearsighted and then when he went to Stanford, they called him Urkel.

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