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quickest-sighted

quickest-sighted is the superlative form of quick-sighted.

Meaning of quick-sighted

Adjective

quick-sighted (comparative more quick-sighted or quicker-sighted, superlative most quick-sighted or quickest-sighted)

  1. Having keen vision.
    • The quick-sighted hawk saw the small mouse from a great height.
  2. Keenly perceptive.
    • Gold is a ſutor, neuer tooke repulſe, […] It thawes the froſtieſt, and moſt ſtiffe diſdaine: / Muffles the clearneſſe of Election, / Straines fancie vnto foule Apoſtacie, / And ſtrikes the quickeſt-ſighted Iudgement blinde.1600, B[en] Jonson, “Riches. Description of Mammon.”, in R[obert] A[llot], compiler, Englands Parnassus: or The Choysest Flowers of Our Moderne Poets, with Their Poeticall Comparisons. […], London...

Questions about quickest-sighted

What is quickest-sighted the superlative form of?
Quickest-sighted is the superlative form of quick-sighted.

Words near quickest-sighted in the dictionary

  1. quicker-sighted
  2. quickest
  3. quickest on the draw
  4. quickest sighted
  5. quickest-and-dirtiest
  6. quickest-sighted
  7. quickety split
  8. quickfire
  9. quickfrozen
  10. quickhanded
  11. quickhatch

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