Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-sighted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My daughter's long-sighted and wears reading glasses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A long-sighted contrarian might now dump equities for buildings.
▪ His long-sighted eyes reflected gold back to the sunset, and the brightness did not fade as the sun went down.
▪ She attempted a smile, head tilted back, long-sighted eyes drained of most of their blue by the afternoon light.
▪ Until now, long-sighted people have to wear glasses or contact lenses to see the world in sharp focus.
▪ We become more long-sighted as we grow older, and our glasses need to be more powerful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Long-sighted
Long-sighted \Long"-sight`ed\, a.
Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.
Wiktionary
long-sighted
a. hyperopic; farsighted
Usage examples of "long-sighted".
If one clambered up on that tomb one could see the plain from it, level and boundless as the sky, one could see villages, manor-houses, the settlements of the Germans and of the Molokani, and a long-sighted Kalmuck could even see the town and the railway-station.