myopic
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8.4
- adjective
- /maɪˈoʊpɪk/
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miope
- The stance that only US voters matter is completely myopic; the year is not 1917.
- myopic view
- myopic perspective
- myopic focus
And make sure that you're not myopic in your pricing.
- And make sure that you're not myopic in your pricing.
- Writers are very myopic, and that's OK.
- But we we keep coming up with these myopic solutions.
- What specifically are you going to do outside of the three myopic tiny proposals you keep mentioning?
- It's dumbfounding that we can be this myopic.
- He and his wife, Elon Musk have a myopic focus on that and he wants to be able to write a check for it.
- Because most disappointments happen because we get myopic, meaning we narrow our focus solely to the problem.
- You've become so myopic to the pain that you've lost sight of the myriad states that the human mind can produce.
- This has always been a concern of mine, and there's a constant struggle to correct that myopic viewpoint, that worldview we're constantly resetting.
- I've, I've, you know, moved on from my previously myopic view.
- Is that myopic or I think so.
Examples
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Japanese policy on foreign aid seems far more subtle and less myopic than implied by this popular view.
Academic text (1992) -
American idealists should not be myopic and settle for current Taiwanese independence at the expense of future Chinese democracy.
Academic text (1996) -
But to not address that is, is, is completely myopic in my view.
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But we we keep coming up with these myopic solutions.
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The point is, don't be myopic in your approach.
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And make sure that you're not myopic in your pricing.
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Because most disappointments happen because we get myopic, meaning we narrow our focus solely to the problem.
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The negotiators are advancing the discussions and making decisions with a dangerously myopic perspective on their consequences.
Academic text (2001) -
Meanwhile, of course, the proponents of whole-child education become irate at such myopic views of the purposes of schooling.
Academic text (1994) -
A myopic view of the issue can lead to ineffective solutions.
Synonyms
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4.2
Making decisions without thinking about the future
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5.2
Not thinking about the future or the later results of actions
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8.1
Not willing to consider other ideas or views
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7.2
Unable to see or plan for the future
Not planning for problems that will happen in the future
Not planning ahead or thinking about the future
Compounds
How Short-sighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word myopic comes from Greek parts myo- meaning 'to shut' and -opia meaning 'sight', so it paints the picture of 'closed eyes' unable to see ahead. That's why we call short-sighted plans or people myopic when they ignore the future.