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sightread

sightread is the alternative form of sight read.

Meaning of sight read

Verb

sight read (third-person singular simple present sight reads, present participle sight reading, simple past and past participle sight read)

  1. To perform a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
    • I can sight read really simple music, but hard pieces need a lot of practice so I don't have to stop and figure out what I'm doing.
  2. (figuratively) To complete a video game level (particularly an autoscroller) while playing it for the first time, without practice.

Forms of sightread

third-person singular presentsightreads
present participlesightreading
past participlesightread
pastsightread

Words formed from sightread

Questions about sightread

What is sightread the alternative form of?
Sightread is the alternative form of sight read.

Words near sightread in the dictionary

  1. sightlines
  2. sightliness
  3. sightloss
  4. sightly
  5. sightproof
  6. sightread
  7. sightreadable
  8. sightreading
  9. sightreads
  10. sights
  11. sights for sore eyes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sightread (page history and authors); sight read (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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