Adjacent Words

Shortsighted definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHORT'SIGHTED, a. [short and sight.]
1. Not able to see far; having limited vision; in a literal sense.
2. Not able to look far into futurity; not able to understand things deep or remite; of limited intellect.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic]
2: unable to see distant objects clearly [syn: nearsighted, shortsighted, myopic] [ant: farsighted, presbyopic]
3: not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" [syn: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident, shortsighted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1622 1. lacking foresight 2. nearsighted • shortsightedly adverb • shortsightedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shortsighted Short"sight`ed, a. 1. Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia. 2. Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect. 3. Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. -- Short"sight`ed*ness, n. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see short-sighted

Moby Thesaurus

asquint, astigmatic, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, dim-sighted, fanatical, farsighted, hidebound, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illiberal, imperceptive, impercipient, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensible, insular, irrational, little, little-minded, longsighted, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mind-blind, mindless, misadvised, misguided, mope-eyed, myopic, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nonunderstanding, parochial, petty, poor-sighted, presbyopic, provincial, purblind, reasonless, reckless, senseless, small, small-minded, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, straitlaced, stuffy, thoughtless, unadvised, unapprehending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncomprehending, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, ungenerous, unliberal, unperceptive, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsound, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, winking, witless