sighted

[ sahy-tid ]

adjective

1. having functional vision; not blind.
2. having a particular type of eyesight or perception (used in combination):

   sharp-sighted; clear-sighted.

sighted

/ ˈsaɪtɪd /

adjective

1. possessing the ability to see
2. in combination having sight of a specified kind

   short-sighted

Other Words From

• half-sighted adjective
• half-sighted·ly adverb
• half-sighted·ness noun
• under·sighted adjective
• un·sighted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sighted¹

First recorded in 1545–55; sight + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Yet director Garret Price’s film, thankfully, isn’t that narrow-sighted.

From The Daily Beast

If the machine was hacked to say you voted for candidate A when the ballot says you voted for candidate B, for instance, all the sighted voters would notice it.

From FiveThirtyEight

On Thursday, an open letter signed by actors including Hugh Grant and Michael Sheen and writers including Neil Gaiman and Hilary Mantel called for an end to “short-sighted political and financial attacks” on public-funded broadcasting.

From Time

Residents have also successfully turned to the courts to challenge the board’s short-sighted planning decisions.

From Voice of San Diego

I believe that they are too short-sighted and they do not lend themselves to building real communications infrastructure that talks to voters every day, every daywhich is what we need.

From Freakonomics

Jay Z, Leonardo DiCaprio (also in Miami, sighted leaving a club with 20 women), and Owen Wilson are all dedicated art collectors.

From The Daily Beast

We are lucky that so many were, like Lange, smart, even-handed, and far-sighted.

From The Daily Beast

It was the result of a chain of good decisions—wise, prudent, long-sighted, or, at the least, expedient choices.

From The Daily Beast

He is sighted just off-stage, harried look on his face, occasionally smiling.

From The Daily Beast

Shooting is permitted only from the allotted spot, from the moment the birds are sighted to the one they disappear.

From The Daily Beast

Three days before these tempests commenced they sighted the capitana, but never saw her again.

From Project Gutenberg

To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.

From Project Gutenberg

Two or three small parties of guerrillas had been sighted, but they took to the brush at the sight of the Federals.

From Project Gutenberg

They sighted the port of Cavite in order to reconnoiter the strength of the fleet stationed there.

From Project Gutenberg

As we were leaving, a message came in to say that an enemy submarine had been sighted off Gaba Tepe.

From Project Gutenberg