clear-eyed

Adjective

clear-eyed (comparative more clear-eyed or clearer-eyed, superlative most clear-eyed or clearest-eyed)

1. Having clear, sharp sight.

   Synonyms:

   clear-sighted, sharp-eyed, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, falcon-eyed, lynx-eyed

2. (figuratively) Mentally acute and perspicacious.
   • Another is the smoldering radicalism of eternal student Terrence Moses (Marc Ewing, aptly intense), once the family’s tutor, now smitten with Anna and perhaps the clearest-eyed person in the play.2009 July 2, David C. Nichols, “Theater review: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC...
   • The new government of President Jacob Zuma seems to have a clearer-eyed view of the problem, its remedies and the need to improve the overall health care system than its predecessor did.2009 August 30, “Hope in South Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2018

   Synonyms:

   clear-sighted, clearheaded, bright-eyed, sharp-eyed, eagle-eyed

   Antonyms:

   foggy, blurry, muddle-headed, muddled, muddied, addleheaded, addlebrained, addled, addlepated