myopic

English

Etymology

From myopia +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maɪˈɒpɪk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /maɪˈoʊpɪk/, /maɪˈɑpɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
• Hyphenation: my‧op‧ic

Adjective

myopic (comparative more myopic, superlative most myopic)

1. near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided

   Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye.

   A stronger prescription for myopic night drivers is often needed.

2. shortsighted; improvident
3. narrow minded

   So it is no wonder that some of the remarkable discoveries of the scientific method (...) can draw most of us well outside our myopic comfort zone.

Synonyms

• short-sighted
• near-sighted

Antonyms

• hyperopic

Related terms

• myopia

Translations

unable to see distant objects unaided

• Armenian: կարճատես (hy) (karčates)
• Catalan: miop m
• Czech: krátkozraký m
• Danish: nærsynet (da)
• Dutch: bijziend (nl)
• Esperanto: miopa
• Finnish: likinäköinen (fi)
• French: myope (fr)
• Galician: miope (gl), pitoño m, chosco m
• German: kurzsichtig (de), myop (de), myopisch (de)
• Greek: μυωπικός (el) (myopikós)

  Ancient: μύωψ (múōps)

• Hungarian: rövidlátó (hu)
• Irish: gearr-radharcach
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şevkor (ku)

• Maori: kahurua, pōnakonako
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nærsynt

  Nynorsk: nærsynt

• Polish: krótkowzroczny (pl)
• Portuguese: míope (pt), miópico
• Russian: близору́кий (ru) (blizorúkij)
• Slovak: krátkozraký
• Spanish: miope
• Swedish: närsynt (sv)
• Turkish: miyop (tr)
• Welsh: byr ei olwg m, byr ei golwg f, byr eu golwg pl

shortsighted

• German: kurzsichtig (de)
• Polish: krótkowzroczny (pl)

• Slovak: krátkozraký

Noun

myopic (plural myopics)

1. A short-sighted individual.
   • 2008 March 23, Polly Morrice, “Descended From Salinger”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The offbeat little girls of “Playdate,” whose mothers stumble through parenthood, are not the first characters to feel like cultural descendants of Salinger’s children, those savants, myopics, guileless nose pickers and practicing belchers who seem to glow on the page, highlighting the shallowness of the adults.

See also

• presbyopic