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Farsighted

Farsighted \Far"sight`ed\, a.

  1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

  2. (Med.) Hypermetropic.

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farsighted

a. 1 Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic. 2 Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.

WordNet
farsighted
  1. adj. able to see distant objects clearly [syn: presbyopic] [ant: nearsighted]

  2. planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted]

Usage examples of "farsighted".

When Adams confided that he hoped to keep Hamilton at a safe distance, she provided a withering farsighted assessment.

Viridovix marveled at how his friend had grown from a roistering young blood in Videssos to a farsighted chieftain over the course of a year.

In some cases exercises to strengthen and control eye muscles have improved the vision of nearsighted or farsighted persons.

She possessed every quality that set apart those noble in spirit as well as blood: tall and handsome, prudent and humble, diligent and pious, farsighted and discreet, eloquent, patient, amiable, and stern.

The gringos tended to grease the squeaky wheellike everyone else in the world, perhaps, but still it was not terribly farsighted of them.

Those farsighted people chose to merge their inefficient little chiefdoms into a larger state capable of blessing them with large-scale irrigation.

They were also lookout towers from which farsighted jijites could keep watch on the surrounding plains-and on other, marauding members of their own kind.

What a man wants in order to run for the office of sheriff is a reputation for being a square, solid, substantial business man, and that is what you had, Wade, and besides that you were a smooth, shrewd, farsighted, machine politician.