defective vision of distant objects resulting from the visual images being focused in front of the retina; shortsightedness: compare hypermetropia
a lack of foresight, imagination, or intellectual objectivity
a lack of ability or a deliberate unwillingness to be intellectually objective or to see the validity of other people's opinions; narrow-mindedness
myopic /mieʹopik, mieʹohpik/ adj
myopically /mieʹopikli, mieʹohpikli/ adv
[via late Latin from Greek myōpia from myōps: see myope]