- shortsighted
- adjective Date: 1622 1. lacking foresight 2. nearsighted • shortsightedly adverb • shortsightedness noun
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Shortsighted — Short sight ed, a. 1. Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See {Myopic}, and {Myopia}. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect. [1913 Webster] 3. Having little regard … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Shortsighted — may refer to: *Common sense *Myopia … Wikipedia
shortsighted — index ill advised, ill judged, imprudent, misadvised Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
shortsighted — (adj.) also short sighted, 1640s, of eyesight; 1620s in the sense lacking foresight; see SHORT (Cf. short) + SIGHT (Cf. sight). Related: Shortsightedly; shortsightedness … Etymology dictionary
shortsighted — [adj] unmindful of future consequences astigmatic, blind, careless, foolish, headlong, ill advised, ill considered, imperceptive, impolitic, impractical, improvident, imprudent, injudicious, myopic, nearsighted, rash, stupid, unsagacious, unwary; … New thesaurus
shortsighted — [shôrt′sīt΄id] adj. 1. NEARSIGHTED 2. having or showing a lack of foresight shortsightedly adv. shortsightedness n … English World dictionary
shortsighted — adj. shortsighted to + inf. (it was shortsighted of her not to make a reservation) * * * shortsighted to + inf. (it was shortsighted of her not to make a reservation) … Combinatory dictionary
shortsighted — adjective 1. lacking foresight or scope (Freq. 4) a short view of the problem shortsighted policies shortsighted critics derided the plan myopic thinking • Syn: ↑short, ↑unforesightful, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
shortsighted — shortsightedly, adv. shortsightedness, n. /shawrt suy tid/, adj. 1. unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic. 2. lacking in foresight: a shortsighted plan. [1615 25] Syn. 2. unthinking, heedless, careless, improvident. Ant. 2. prudent. * * * … Universalium
shortsighted — adjective shortsighted critics Syn: narrow minded, unimaginative, small minded, insular, parochial, provincial, improvident Ant: farsighted, imaginative … Thesaurus of popular words
