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Nearsighted

Nearsighted \Near"sight`ed\, a. Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.

Wiktionary
nearsighted

a. (alternative form of near-sighted English)

WordNet
nearsighted

adj. unable to see distant objects clearly [syn: myopic] [ant: farsighted]

Usage examples of "nearsighted".

His gift of precognition had never been strong, and when it concerned his own future he was painfully nearsighted, a fact Aisling attributed to his tainted blood.

When he worked on a shipwreck, goatfish dug in the sand beside him, rays skittered across the bottom, and there was always the tiny danger that some nearsighted wrasse would take a bite from his earlobe.

He focused it, as the nearsighted Brady could not, moved it slightly to get the form in the foreground in focus, and grunted.

He was a round-faced, nearsighted prig with bad breath, hanging dewlaps, and a sour stomach from too much rich food.

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

Her eyes were very big and green, even if they might be a little nearsighted, and Carole wished her own hair was that interesting chartreuse color and thick and straight instead of just plain brown and curly.

Many technical men, very able in their special departments, but dominated by a pedantic spirit and nearsighted, have asserted that excepting the induction motor, I have given the world little of practical use.