presbyopic
UK/pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/
presbyopic adjective: affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
Adjective
presbyopic (comparative more presbyopic, superlative most presbyopic)
- Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
- the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11
Noun
presbyopic (plural presbyopics)
- A person who has presbyopia.
- These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses.2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere
Forms of presbyopic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more presbyopic |
| superlative | most presbyopic |
| Noun | |
| plural | presbyopics |
Origin of presbyopic
From presbyopia + -ic.
Words formed from presbyopic
Words that rhyme with presbyopic
- topic
- microscopic
- polytropic
- telescopic
- tropic
- catascopic
- megascopic
- monotropic
- myopic
- tonotopic
- allotopic
- diascopic
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- dystropic
- 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
Questions about presbyopic
- What does presbyopic mean?
- Presbyopic means affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
- What part of speech is presbyopic?
- Presbyopic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce presbyopic?
- Presbyopic is pronounced /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/ (UK).
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