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short-sighted

short-sighted adjective: near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.

Adjective

short-sighted (comparative more short-sighted, superlative most short-sighted)

  1. Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.
    • a short-sighted man
    • a short-sighted person
  2. (figuratively) Unable to see long-term objectives; lacking foresight.
    • a short-sighted idea
    • The line used to continue to Ilfracombe, but that was closed in 1970 - another short-sighted decision that is still rued today.2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48

short-sighted meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

short-sighted in Tamil

அணுக்கப்பார்வைக் கோளாறுள்ள, கிட்டப்பார்வையுள்ள, தொலை நோக்கின்மை

short-sighted in Bengali

short-sighted
অপরিণামদর্শী oprinamodorśi

short-sighted in Malayalam

ഹ്രസ്വദൃഷ്ടിയുള്ള, വെള്ളെഴുത്തുള്ള

Synonyms of short-sighted

Antonyms

Forms of short-sighted

comparativemore short-sighted
superlativemost short-sighted
alternative formshortsighted

Words formed from short-sighted

Questions about short-sighted

What does short-sighted mean?
Short-sighted means near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.
What is short-sighted in Tamil?
Short-sighted in Tamil is அணுக்கப்பார்வைக் கோளாறுள்ள, கிட்டப்பார்வையுள்ள, தொலை நோக்கின்மை. See Short-sighted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is short-sighted?
Short-sighted is an adjective.

Words near short-sighted in the dictionary

  1. short-sheets
  2. short-ship
  3. short-short stories
  4. short-short story
  5. short-shorts
  6. short-sighted
  7. short-sightedly
  8. short-sightedness
  9. short-sleeper
  10. short-sleepers
  11. short-sleeved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-sighted (page history and authors); short-sighted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অপরিণামদর্শী (Bengali) (page history and authors); short-sighted (Malayalam 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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