myopicadj.n.

1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 36 The focal length of spectacles required for myopic or presbyopic eyes.

1826 Lancet 12 Aug. 613/2 The habitual mode of employing the eyes has decided influence in rendering them either myopic or presbyopic.

1841 Bentley's Mag. Dec. 583 He was repeatedly required at his own balls to call up carriages..for fashionable ladies, myopic enough to mistake him for his delegate.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. i. 8 Your Moralist is a myopic preacher.

1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost i. v. 42 I'm myopic. I can't see my own hand.

1962 Man 62 72/1 The myope had little chance of survival or of protecting himself and the myopic gene disappeared.

1990 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 19 1048/1 The increased risk of retinal detachment in myopic versus non-myopic patients..has not been studied in an epidemiological investigation.

1894 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 4 355 Both of these conclusions..are ruinous ‘to reason and to history’. Both, in fact, are myopic. They leave out of sight what may be called the ‘principle of fluctuation’ in national growth.

1921 Jrnl. Philos. 18 423 The psychologists, he says, who would undertake to explain mental reactions in terms of what goes on in the laboratory are intellectually myopic.

1955 Sci. Amer. Oct. 103/1 Until Maupertuis's death in 1759 Voltaire did not relent in his flood of unmerciful, unscrupulous and myopic ridicule.

1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus v. 82 For some considerable time I had been endeavouring to persuade the BBC to film an animal-collecting trip, but they had been very myopic about the whole thing.

1993 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. iv. 15/3 Frustrated by the myopic conduct of owners, Congress is closer now to repealing that immunity than it has been in years.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 259/1 For the myopic who can see an object clearly at 4 inches distance.

1956 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 27 352/2 Those who see only the changes..are hopelessly short-sighted. We are familiar with such myopics among educational theorists.

1982 E. Simpson Poets in their Youth vi. 124 The myopics, one wearing horn-rimmed glasses, the other contact lenses, commiserated.

1993 Refractive & Corneal Surg. 9 Suppl. ii. 41/1 The multizone PRK technique may be safely employed to reduce the maximum central depth of the keratectomy in high myopics.