shortsighted

[ shawrt-sahy-tid ]
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adjective
  1. unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.

  2. lacking in foresight: a shortsighted plan.

Origin of shortsighted

1
First recorded in 1615–25

Other words for shortsighted

Opposites for shortsighted

Other words from shortsighted

  • short·sight·ed·ly, adverb
  • short·sight·ed·ness, noun

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How to use shortsighted in a sentence

  • Had the doctor's wisdom been monstrous folly, and his prudence the blindest shortsightedness?

    The Doctor's Family | Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
  • In this, as in other things, we have a tendency toward smugness, shortsightedness and egotism.

    How to Analyze People on Sight | Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
  • Love wasn't a sacred fluid held in a single vessel of alabaster; marriage didn't conveniently create shortsightedness.

    Cytherea | Joseph Hergesheimer
  • But instead of doing this, people follow the usual course of shortsightedness and make their private standpoint a universal one.

  • The shortsightedness of this policy will be apparent when one calculates that the ships were hired by the day.

    Australia in Arms | Phillip F.E. Schuler

British Dictionary definitions for short-sighted

short-sighted

adjective
  1. relating to or suffering from myopia

  2. lacking foresight: a short-sighted plan

Derived forms of short-sighted

  • short-sightedly, adverb
  • short-sightedness, noun

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