myopic
/mʌɪˈɒpɪk
/adjective
1Short-sighted: most myopic children can be fitted with glasses to correct their vision...
- Approximately 62 million people in the United States are myopic (ie, nearsighted) and require eyeglasses or contact lenses for vision correction.
- And of the 5,000 children who turned up at eye clinics for further checks, about half were mildly myopic or shortsighted.
- Retinal degeneration is more common in myopic eyes but it's not exactly related to macular degeneration.
Synonyms
short-sighted;
North American nearsighted
informal as blind as a bat
archaic purblind
1.1Lacking foresight or intellectual insight: the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending...
- Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity.
- Such notions are myopic and without foresight.
- After all, why should the majority suffer for the myopic attitude of a minority, she asks.
Synonyms
unimaginative, uncreative, unadventurous, narrow-minded, lacking foresight, small-minded, short-term, narrow;
insular, parochial, provincial
Derivatives
myopically
- A man in a tattered suit, involved, myopically, in some elementary task, despite being surrounded by silent indifference.
- We are myopically focused in one area, which lets us manage the political risk more effectively.
- By late morning he stood on high ground bordering Styal Woods, looking back myopically over the gently undulating farmland.