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short-sighted, a.
[Cf. prec. and sighted a.]
1. Having short sight; having the focus of the eyes at less than the normal distance; unable to distinguish objects clearly at a distance; myopic.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V Wks. (1711) 105 The other, who was short-sighted, had broken his ponderous sword. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §5 Wks. 1871 I. 139 He who is short-sighted will be obliged to draw the object nearer. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 165 Two lenses of this kind, one for cylindrical and short-sighted eyes..and another for long-sighted eyes. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 238 A short-sighted person had been requested by some one to read small letters.
b. absol.
1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 181 The observations which we have made on spectacles for longsight, are, generally speaking, applicable to the shortsighted.
2. fig. Lacking in foresight or in extent of intellectual outlook.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 216 Those that are yong, are very short-sighted in your choyser sort of things. 1740J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 198 The giddy short-sighted Minds of young Men. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. 8 So short-sighted are politicians in power. 1902R. Bagot Donna Diana xxx. 396 He..cursed himself for a short-sighted fool.
absol.1648Denham Cato Major iv. (1669) 50 The foolish and short-sighted die with fear, That they go no where, or they know not where. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 107 The march of circumstance has become too obvious to escape the attention of the most short-sighted.
3. Characterized by or proceeding from want of foresight or limited mental vision.
1736Gentl. Mag. VI. 314/2 [Discoverers] whose Geography was so weak, and so short-sighted, that [etc.]. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 92 The laws which we call shortsighted, against engrossers of grain. 1864Kingsley Roman & T. i. (1875) 10 A shortsighted and suicidal policy. 1891Speaker 11 July 36/1 The pitiable display of short⁓sighted greed over the Factory Bill.
Hence short-ˈsightedly adv.; short-ˈsightedness lit. and fig.
1670Cotton Espernon ii. vii. 320 The short-sightedness of humane Wisdom. 1715Pope's Iliad Notes iv. 503 The divine Boldnesses which in their very Nature provoke Ignorance and Short-sightedness to shew themselves. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. xii, Verdant..was short-sightedly peering at the celebrated ‘Charles the First’ of Vandyck. 1884R. W. Church Bacon iii. 63 The apparent shortsightedness of the policy. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 55 Rash and short-sightedly premature gatherings of crop. |