short-sightedadjective
uk/ˌʃɔːtˈsaɪ.tɪd/us/ˌʃɔːrtˈsaɪ.t̬ɪd/short-sighted adjective (SIGHT)
C2 US also nearsighted A short-sighted person can only clearly see objects that are close to them.
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Eyesight, glasses & lenses
- (as) blind as a bat idiom
- 20/20 vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- AMD
- Balint's syndrome
- blepharospasm
- blind side
- blindly
- ciliary
- cross-eyed
- dispensing optician
- horn-rimmed
- lorgnette
- nearsighted
- ophthalmologist
- optometrist
- safety glasses
- sightless
- spectacle
- twenty-twenty vision
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short-sighted adjective (THOUGHT)
C2 disapproving not thinking enough about how an action will affect the future:
It's very short-sighted of the government not to invest in technological research.
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Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- set
- small-minded
- strait-laced
- tunnel vision
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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short-sightedness
noun [ U ] uk/ˌʃɔːtˈsaɪ.tɪd.nəs/us/ˌʃɔːrtˈsaɪ.t̬ɪd.nəs/US also nearsightedness