Define the word longsighted"Long-sighted" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Long-sighted \Long"-sight`ed\, a.
1. Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having
great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
[1913 Webster]
2. Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not
close at hand; hypermetropic.
[1913 Webster]
"longsighted" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
longsighted
adj 1: capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted,
farseeing]
2: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that
required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the
geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted,
foresightful, long]
"longsighted" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "longsighted":
acute, anticipant, anticipatory, apperceptive, appercipient,
argute, asquint, astigmatic, astute, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky,
clairvoyant, cogent, discerning, divinatory, farseeing, farsighted,
forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted,
forethoughtful, incisive, intuitive, longheaded, mope-eyed, myopic,
nearsighted, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious,
perspicuous, piercing, poor-sighted, precognitive, precognizant,
prepared, presbyopic, prescient, provident, providential, prudent,
ready, sagacious, shortsighted, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed,
squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, trenchant,
understanding, winking
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