myopic
Syllables: my·op·ic/maɪˈɒpɪk/US/maɪˈoʊpɪk/
myopic adjective: near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
Adjective
myopic (comparative more myopic, superlative most myopic)
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- hyperopic
- Shortsighted; improvident.
- The real problem, he insists, is the myopic mentality that has failed to address climate change to date. The rich world’s indifference to the despoliation of the environment in pursuit of short-term economic gain is rooted in a wider problem.2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
- Narrow-minded.
- Scientific advances can draw us outside of our myopic comfort zone.
- Will you come testify in the court of myopic opinion / Or will you settle for oblivion?2014, “Sarcastrophe” (02:24-02:32 from the start), in .5: The Gray Chapter (Alternative Metal, Nu Metal), performed by Slipknot
Noun
myopic (plural myopics)
- A short-sighted individual.
- 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...2008 March 23, Polly Morrice, “Descended From Salinger”, in New York Times
myopic meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese
myopic in Tamil
- புரிதல் குறைபாடு
myopic in Malayalam
- shortsighted, near-sighted
- ഹ്രസ്വദൃഷ്ടിയുള്ള, വിച്ഛായ, കാഴ്ചക്കുറവുള്ള, തിമിര, ദൂരക്കാഴ്ചയില്ലാത്ത, വെള്ളെഴുത്തുള്ള
- uncreative, unimaginative, unadventurous
- അല്പദൃഷ്ടി, ദീർഘവീക്ഷണമില്ലാത്ത, ഭാവനാപരമല്ലാത്ത, ഭാവനാശൂന്യമായ, സൃഷ്ടിവെെഭവമില്ലാത്ത, സാഹസികബുദ്ധിയല്ലാത്ത
myopic in Kannada
- ಸಮೀಪದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ನರಳುತ್ತಿರುವ, ಸಮೀಪ ದೃಷ್ಟಿದೋಷದ
myopic in Vietnamese
- unable to see distant objects unaided
- cận thị, cận
Examples of myopic in a sentence
- I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.
- Gone are the dark days of myopic ruinism and the primitive huts of fragmented postmodern pessimism.
- The relative peripheral refraction of the more myopic eye of anisomyopia was shifted hyperopically, as occurs in isomyopia with similar central subjective SE values.
Synonyms of myopic
Antonyms
Forms of myopic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more myopic |
| superlative | most myopic |
| Noun | |
| plural | myopics |
Origin of myopic
From myopia + -ic.
Words formed from myopic
Words that rhyme with myopic
- topic
- microscopic
- polytropic
- telescopic
- tropic
- catascopic
- megascopic
- monotropic
- tonotopic
- allotopic
- diascopic
- dystropic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ectopic
- fibroscopic
- gonadotropic
- macroscopic
- microendoscopic
- monoscopic
- polytopic
- proctoscopic
- rhinoscopic
- thermoscopic
- thermotropic
- acroscopic
- adrenocorticotropic
- aerotropic
- Afrotropic
- allotropic
- amblyopic
- ametropic
- anascopic
- anoscopic
- anthropic
- antigonadotropic
- antitropic
- antroscopic
- apocopic
- arthroscopic
- arthrotropic
- asthenopic
- astroscopic
- atopic
- auriscopic
- autoscopic
- autostereoscopic
- baroscopic
- barotropic
- basiscopic
- bathmotropic
- bioscopic
- bronchoscopic
- brontoscopic
- chemotropic
- chromatophorotropic
- chromoendoscopic
- chromotropic
- chronoscopic
- chronotopic
- chronotropic
- colorectoscopic
Questions about myopic
- What does myopic mean?
- Myopic means near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
- What is myopic in Tamil?
- Myopic in Tamil is புரிதல் குறைபாடு. See Myopic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is myopic?
- Myopic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce myopic?
- Myopic is pronounced /maɪˈɒpɪk/ (UK).
Words near myopic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: myopic (page history and authors); myopic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); myopic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); myopic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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