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单词 clear-sighted
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Definition of clear-sighted in English:

clear-sighted

adjective
  • Thinking clearly and sensibly.

    a clear-sighted sense of what is appropriate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It requires a clear-sighted, historically-informed analysis and the clarification of essential political questions.
    • We take it rather as a time for reflection and clear-sighted realism about how far the nation has progressed on the path towards freedom and democracy, and how much farther we still have to go.
    • What is needed is a clear-sighted reappraisal of where we stand, before we can plot a path forwards.
    • He was on good terms with the major novelists of his day: he greatly admired Thackeray, of whom he nevertheless wrote a clear-sighted study, and was a close friend of G. Eliot and G. H. Lewes.
    • The book is a clear-sighted, yet compassionate, take on a whole gamut of issues.
    • Here too are many of the familiar themes - alienation, loss, connection, regeneration - that she explored so deftly and with such subtlety and clear-sighted compassion in her story collection.
    • How is anyone able to make a clear-sighted judgement about retirement when both press and public conspire to blur the truth and even encourage us to go on beyond reasonable limits?
    • I suggest that some people might find this theory credulous and at odds with the clear-sighted understanding of human nature in her work.
    • In ten years time people could be making a much more clear-sighted judgement.
    • That prime ministerial statement had no vision; nor did it have any clear-sighted sense of purpose.
    • A more clear-sighted perspective on the good in human life and a firmer grasp of how we might work together to attain it seem well worth the discomfiture of reorganizing our professional aims and self-understandings.
    • He provides a clear-sighted and sensible guide for anyone who finds himself in the media spotlight.
    • But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.
    • His speech was important, powerful and clear-sighted.
    • This opening cluster of poems in the book advocates ‘not knowing’ as an elegiac mode of creative forgetfulness and of clear-sighted, forwardlooking memory.
    • A love that is elastic as well as clear-sighted is likely to endure.
    • There, he restated his belief that the panel marked the origin of French painting and amplified his earlier praises of what he saw as the artist's unabashedly clear-sighted reproduction of the hapless king's blunt features.
    • The information on this site is fairly clear-sighted.
    • He is clear-sighted about the scale of his future ambitions.
    Synonyms
    wise, sensible, prudent, politic, shrewd, astute, canny, sagacious, common-sense, commonsensical, sound, well advised, well judged, well thought out, considered, thoughtful, perceptive, discerning, insightful, far-sighted, percipient, discriminating, informed, intelligent, clever, enlightened, logical, rational

Derivatives

  • clear-sightedness

  • nounˌklɪərˈsʌɪtɪdnəs
    • But there seemed to be a kind of clear-sightedness, a kind of precocity that co-existed with that point in life.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her clear-sightedness is highly respected by all that work with her - be they channel controllers, writers or production teams.
      • She is known equally for her outspokenness and her high ideals; she is full of common sense and clear-sightedness; she expresses herself with biting humour.
      • Among my patients are some refugees, most of them people of intelligence, drive, and clear-sightedness.
      • His commitment to independence and clear-sightedness have made him take great risks, the consequences of which he has been made to feel while at the same time experiencing enormous response from widely divergent quarters.
 
 

Definition of clear-sighted in US English:

clear-sighted

adjectiveˌklirˈsīdidˌklɪrˈsaɪdɪd
  • Thinking clearly and sensibly; perspicacious and discerning.

    a clear-sighted sense of what is possible and appropriate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I suggest that some people might find this theory credulous and at odds with the clear-sighted understanding of human nature in her work.
    • The information on this site is fairly clear-sighted.
    • In ten years time people could be making a much more clear-sighted judgement.
    • A love that is elastic as well as clear-sighted is likely to endure.
    • We take it rather as a time for reflection and clear-sighted realism about how far the nation has progressed on the path towards freedom and democracy, and how much farther we still have to go.
    • He provides a clear-sighted and sensible guide for anyone who finds himself in the media spotlight.
    • But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.
    • A more clear-sighted perspective on the good in human life and a firmer grasp of how we might work together to attain it seem well worth the discomfiture of reorganizing our professional aims and self-understandings.
    • Here too are many of the familiar themes - alienation, loss, connection, regeneration - that she explored so deftly and with such subtlety and clear-sighted compassion in her story collection.
    • What is needed is a clear-sighted reappraisal of where we stand, before we can plot a path forwards.
    • His speech was important, powerful and clear-sighted.
    • That prime ministerial statement had no vision; nor did it have any clear-sighted sense of purpose.
    • It requires a clear-sighted, historically-informed analysis and the clarification of essential political questions.
    • This opening cluster of poems in the book advocates ‘not knowing’ as an elegiac mode of creative forgetfulness and of clear-sighted, forwardlooking memory.
    • He is clear-sighted about the scale of his future ambitions.
    • The book is a clear-sighted, yet compassionate, take on a whole gamut of issues.
    • There, he restated his belief that the panel marked the origin of French painting and amplified his earlier praises of what he saw as the artist's unabashedly clear-sighted reproduction of the hapless king's blunt features.
    • How is anyone able to make a clear-sighted judgement about retirement when both press and public conspire to blur the truth and even encourage us to go on beyond reasonable limits?
    • He was on good terms with the major novelists of his day: he greatly admired Thackeray, of whom he nevertheless wrote a clear-sighted study, and was a close friend of G. Eliot and G. H. Lewes.
    Synonyms
    wise, sensible, prudent, politic, shrewd, astute, canny, sagacious, common-sense, commonsensical, sound, well advised, well judged, well thought out, considered, thoughtful, perceptive, discerning, insightful, far-sighted, percipient, discriminating, informed, intelligent, clever, enlightened, logical, rational
 
 
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