visually impaired

American  

adjective

1. (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a disability.

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noun

1. Usually the visually impaired people with reduced vision so severe as to constitute a disability, considered collectively.

   He founded a training program to aid the visually impaired.

visually impaired British  

adjective

1. 1. having any defect of vision, whether disabling or not

   2. ( as collective noun; preceded by the ) See partially sighted

      the visually impaired

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Other Word Forms

• visual impairment noun

Etymology

Origin of visually impaired

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

How do visually impaired athletes compete at the Winter Paralympics?

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The female skiers take centre stage in Cortina with two giant slalom runs starting at 08:00, with the visually impaired division followed by the standing and seated skiers.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Run one starts from 08:00 with visually impaired skiers followed by standing and seated, with run two to come at 11:00 in the same order.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Austria's Johannes Aigner will be out to retain his title in the visually impaired event but Italian Giacomo Bertagnolli is the world champion and aiming to go one better than Beijing, where he won silver.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

So there I sat on that yellow school bus—Erik Fishers younger brother, Eclipse Boy, visually impaired and totally incapable of following in his brother’s footsteps.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor