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What is "clear-sighted"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clear-sighted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a clear-sighted analysis of the market
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Land Rover has benefited similarly from Rover's clear-sighted policies.
▪ More often, their dealers will be all too clear-sighted in losing them small fortunes.
▪ Or, let's be clear-sighted about this, how can I do this to myself?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clear-sighted

Clear-sighted \Clear"-sight`ed\ (kl[=e]r"s[imac]t`[e^]d), a.

  1. Seeing with clearness; acutely perceptive, discerning; as, clear-sighted reason.

    Syn: clear-eyed, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, clear-headed.

  2. having sharp clear vision.

Wiktionary
clear-sighted

a. 1 Having sharp vision. 2 Acutely perceptive or discerning; perspicacious.

WordNet
clear-sighted

  1. adj. having sharp clear vision

  2. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument" [syn: clear-eyed, perspicacious]

Usage examples of "clear-sighted".

Thereabout Ralph deemed that he saw weapons glittering ahead, but was not sure, for as clear-sighted as he was.

They are the froth on the great tide of biotechnics, whose gleam and glitter will adorn the moment while the real power of the surge will come from honest, clear-sighted laborers like myself.

Had Francis Denbigh, at this age, met with a guardian clear-sighted enough to fathom his real character, and competent to direct his onward course, he would yet have become an ornament to his name and country, and a useful member of society.

There are even cases where enchantment mixes with the disgust - namely, where by a freak of nature genius is tied to some such indiscreet billygoat and ape, as in the case of the Abbe Galiani, the profoundest, most clear-sighted, and perhaps also filthiest man of his century - he was far profounder than Voltaire and consequently also a good deal more taciturn.

It may be that Lady Clarke was the clear-sighted oneand that her husband, Mr.

It is a disturbing element in this otherwise harmonious composition commemorating the astute, clear-sighted age when the first milk teeth are trying to pierce through.

What we require, as we face a future of limitless opportunity, is not blind fear and denial but a clear-sighted sense of responsibility, and the means to undo all the evils of oppression—including the oppressions of our imperfect evolutionary heritage.