myope
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A person who can see nearby things clearly but not things far away
- noun
- /ˈmaɪ.oʊp/
- Specialized
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miopía
- Many myopes often have trouble seeing the board in a classroom without their glasses.
Examples
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As a myope, she always took her glasses with her to see clearly.
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The myope struggled to read the distant signs during their road trip.
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In a landmark economics paper on this issue, two professors dubbed these winners and losers "sophisticates" and "myopes."
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"Smart consumers—the sophisticates—should thank their lucky stars every day that clumsy myopes exist; otherwise, there would be no $5 flights from London to Dublin.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Myope comes from an old Greek word meaning 'close-eyed', made from two parts: one meaning 'to close' and ops meaning 'eye'. So a myope is someone who sees well up close but finds distant things blurry, which is why we also use myopia and myopic to talk about near-sighted vision.