farsighted
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈfɑrˌsaɪtɪd/
- Specialized
- As I have been getting older, my eyesight is slowly deteriorating, getting a little farsighted, you see.
Examples
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He prefers to sit in the back of the classroom because he is farsighted and can see the board better from a distance.
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And the two very important conditions that we have is farsighted or near sighted.
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My nearsightedness keeps getting worse; I thought older folks became farsighted. What gives?
Blog text (7) -
I'm farsighted in my right eye and nearsighted in my left, which gives me crappy depth perception.
Blog text (6) -
I only really need them to read—just a little farsighted," Lily informed the detective.
Fiction book (1993) -
Eyestrain won't make you nearsighted or farsighted; it may simply indicate to your eye doctor that you have developed one of these or some other condition.
Academic text (1996) -
"Because I don't wear my damn glasses, Shana thinks I couldn't really see him, but I'm only a little farsighted, and I guarantee you that I saw the bastard.
Fiction book (1993) -
My grandmother is farsighted and needs reading glasses to see clearly up close.
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Before getting glasses, I didn't realize how much I was struggling with being farsighted and not seeing small text clearly.
Synonyms
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9.7
Has trouble seeing things up close because of age
Able to see far things more clearly than near ones
A person who sees distant things more clearly than close ones
Able to see things far away clearly
Antonyms
How Far-sighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Farsighted comes from far ('at a distance') and sighted ('seeing'), and it literally means 'able to see far'. That's why we call someone farsighted when they see distant things clearly but have trouble with things up close.