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quicksighted

quicksighted is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of quicksighted

comparativemore quicksighted
superlativemost quicksighted

Origin of quicksighted

From quick + sighted.

Questions about quicksighted

What is quicksighted the alternative spelling of?
Quicksighted is the alternative spelling of quick-sighted.

Words near quicksighted in the dictionary

  1. quickshaw
  2. quickshaws
  3. quickshifter
  4. quickshifters
  5. quickshot
  6. quicksighted
  7. quicksilver
  8. quicksilver horizon
  9. quicksilver horizons
  10. quicksilver plaster
  11. quicksilver soap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quicksighted (page history and authors); quick-sighted (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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