The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quick-sighted \Quick"-sight`ed\, a.
Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to
discern.
--Locke.
[1913 Webster]
-- Quick"-sight`ed*ness, n.
WordNet
adj. having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat" [syn: argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted]
keenly perceptive or alert; "quick-sighted into the faults of the time"- Leonard Bacon [syn: sharp-sighted, sharp-eyed]
Usage examples of "quick-sighted".
I can only explain it by remembering the unworldliness of our lives at Beechwood, the heavy cares which now pressed upon us from without, and the notable fact--which our own family experience ought to have taught us, yet did not--that in cases like this, often those whom one would have expected to be most quick-sighted, are the most strangely, irretrievably, mournfully blind.
The captain no sooner perceived the passion of Miss Bridget, in which discovery he was very quick-sighted, than he faithfully returned it.
Quick-sighted, firm, with the courage of his opinions, Campomanes was the fiscal of the Supreme Council of Castille, of which Aranda was president.
M'Dougal, who was somewhat vain of his official rank, had given it to be understood that they were two chiefs of a great trading company, about to be established here, and the quick-sighted, though one-eyed chief, who was somewhat practiced in traffic with white men, immediately perceived the policy of cultivating the friendship of two such important visitors.