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narrow-sighted

narrow-sighted adjective: lacking perspective; Overly focused on one aspect.

Adjective

narrow-sighted

  1. Lacking perspective; Overly focused on one aspect.
    • But few of those who see that incongruity, know that it was dictated by the narrow-sighted frugality of the common council who were its building committee, and who determined that it would be useless to waste margle on the rear of the City-Hall, "since that side would only be seen by persons living...1853, Andrew Jackson Downing ·, “The New-York Park”, in Rural Essays, page 148
    • Presumably in such an approach it is not important to attempt to minimise the costs of “narrow-sighted rationalisation' and irrelevant or impossible to monitor the performance of a state investment company.1983, Brian Hindley, State Investment Companies in Western Europe, page 23

Forms of narrow-sighted

alternative formnarrow sighted

Origin of narrow-sighted

Compare narrow-minded and short-sighted.

Words formed from narrow-sighted

Questions about narrow-sighted

What does narrow-sighted mean?
Narrow-sighted means lacking perspective; Overly focused on one aspect.
What part of speech is narrow-sighted?
Narrow-sighted is an adjective.

Words near narrow-sighted in the dictionary

  1. narrow-mindedness
  2. narrow-mindednesses
  3. narrow-nosed rhino
  4. narrow-nosed rhinoceros
  5. narrow-nosed rhinos
  6. narrow-sighted
  7. narrow-sightedness
  8. narrow-souled
  9. narrow-spectrum
  10. narrow-width effect
  11. narrow-width effects

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