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Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
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Meaning of "short-sighted" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHORT-SIGHTED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHORT-SIGHTED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Short-Sighted is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SHORT-SIGHTED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Myopia

Myopia (Ancient Greek: μυωπία, muōpia, from myein "to shut" – ops (gen. opos) "eye"), commonly known as being nearsighted (American English) and shortsighted (British English), is a condition of the eye where the light that comes in does not directly focus on the retina but in front of it, causing the image that one sees when looking at a distant object to be out of focus, but in focus when looking at a close object. Eye care professionals most commonly correct myopia through the use of corrective lenses, such as glasses or contact lenses. It may also be corrected by refractive surgery, though there are cases of associated side effects. The corrective lenses have a negative optical power (i.e. have a net concave effect) which compensates for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye. Negative diopters are generally used to describe the severity of the myopia, as this is the value of the lens to correct the eye. High-degree myopia, or severe myopia, is defined as -6 diopters or worse. The opposite of myopia is hyperopia.

Definition of short-sighted in the English dictionary

The definition of short-sighted in the dictionary is relating to or suffering from myopia. Other definition of short-sighted is lacking foresight.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHORT-SIGHTED

short-day
short-eared owl
short-haired
short-handed
short-handedness
short-haul
short-life
short-lived
short-order
short-range
short-sightedly
short-sightedness
short-sleeved
short-spined sea scorpion
short-spoken
short-staffed
short-stay
short-stay car park
short-tailed shearwater
short-tempered

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHORT-SIGHTED

benighted
clear-sighted
counterweighted
delighted
far-sighted
foresighted
freighted
long-sighted
near-sighted
nighted
partially sighted
sharp-sighted
sighted
thoughted
trade-weighted
unbenighted
unfrighted
unlighted
unsighted
unweighted
weighted

Synonyms and antonyms of short-sighted in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHORT-SIGHTED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «short-sighted» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of short-sighted

Translation of «short-sighted» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHORT-SIGHTED

Find out the translation of short-sighted to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of short-sighted from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «short-sighted» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

近视的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

miope
570 millions of speakers

English

short-sighted
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अदूरदर्शी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَصِيرُ النَّظْر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

близорукий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

míope
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদূরদর্শী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

myope
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

rabun jauh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kurzsichtig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

近視の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

근시의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cendhak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị cận thị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறுகிய நோக்குடைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अदूरदर्शी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dar görüşlü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miope
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krótkowzroczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

короткозорий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

miop
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυωπικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kortsigtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

närsynt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nærsynt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of short-sighted

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORT-SIGHTED»

The term «short-sighted» is regularly used and occupies the 62.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORT-SIGHTED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «short-sighted» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «short-sighted» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about short-sighted

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8 QUOTES WITH «SHORT-SIGHTED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word short-sighted.
1
Jenny Eclair
I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.
2
Liam Fox
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
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Chris Kilham
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
4
Henry Martyn
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
5
Bethany McLean
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
6
David Mellor
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
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Frances O'Grady
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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Rodney Stark
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHORT-SIGHTED»

Discover the use of short-sighted in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to short-sighted and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Short-sighted Giraffe
Giraffe can’t see very well.
A. H. Benjamin, 2013
2
Cyril the Short Sighted Caterpillar: The Journey
The Journey Jeremy Faithfull.
Jeremy Faithfull, 2014
3
Mind Your Eyes: Advice to the Short-Sighted by Their Fellow ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series.
Francisque Sarcey, 2010
4
Biology
Despite this wonderful adjustment mechanism, many people cannot focus properly. Such people may be either short-sighted or long-sighted. • SHORT- SIGHTED PEOPLE A short-sighted person can focus on things close by, but not a long way ...
Michael Roberts, Neil Ingram, 2001
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Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Term World: Restoring ...
The book explores examples-past and present-of humanity pursuing short-term gains at the expense of our long-term well being. Topics include energy, debt, consumerism, agriculture and our skewed perceptions of time.
Jim Brumm, 2012
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Stanley Bagshaw and the Short-Sighted Football Trainer
It seems that nothing can save Huddersgate Albion from a terrible defeat on the home ground. Until Stanley Bagshaw finds his way on the pitch that is - after that anything can happen.
Bob Wilson, 2006
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Roots of Modern Technology: An Elegant Survey of the Basic ...
Sums of the columns Probabilities of the combinations for different values of p0: Example 1: p0 = 0.60.7 = 0.42 p(being short-sighted if being bald) = 0.12/0.4 = 0.3 = p(short-sighted) This indicates that being bald and being short-sighted are ...
Siegfried Wendt, 2010
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New Perspectives on Austrian Economics
For those who are in disequilibrium by choice, our trendsetting consumers, calculation can be short-sighted (myopic) or far-sighted. When shortsighted, just as with the well-established consumers, A t is zero. Only this time, one is short- sighted ...
Gerrit Meijer, 2008
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Gifted Children: Their Identification and Development in a ...
They found that short-sighted children, compared with those of good vision, were hard working, more attentive in class and had more academic hobbies. They also did better at school because of the extra encouragement and support they ...
J. Freeman, 1980
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SCENES AND THOUGHTS IN EUROPE
Charity is long-sighted, selfishness is short-sighted. And yet, so defective is our social constitution, that a man may be long-sighted in using his neighbor for his own ends. Thus doctors, — who are short-sighted when they take their own physic, ...
GEORGE H. CALVERT, 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHORT-SIGHTED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term short-sighted is used in the context of the following news items.
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Charging migrants to access health services is 'shortsighted'
Charging migrants to access health services is 'shortsighted' ... researcher, Berlin University of Technology, say such policies are “short-sighted and misleading. «OnMedica, Jun 15»
2
Italian minister blasts 'short-sighted' Theresa May after she vows to …
Now Mrs May has been attacked as 'totally short-sighted' by Italy's EU minister Sandro Gozi. Theresa May outright rejects Italian minister's attack as 'totally ... «mirror.co.uk, May 15»
3
The digital age has helped to create a generation of short-sighted
The researchers, who reviewed evidence from 15 different studies, found that people who go to university are twice as likely to become short-sighted as those ... «The Independent, May 15»
4
Why Britain's Conservatives Are Facing Defeat: They're Short-Sighted
The constituency of Brent Central, in northwest London, is a strange place. It's new, for one thing: It was created by amalgamating and splitting several other ... «National Review Online, May 15»
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Indoor Lifestyle Making Kids Short-Sighted
New research shows more than one in five British children are short-sighted, as they increasingly spend less time outdoors. 18:38, UK, Friday 24 April 2015. «Sky News, Apr 15»
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Greenmount agricultural college training cuts 'short-sighted'
"We all accept that we are in austere times and there may be cutbacks, but we have encouraged the department not to take a short-term and short-sighted view ... «BBC News, Mar 15»
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Why are we short-sighted?
Our genes may still play a role in deciding who becomes short-sighted, but it was only through a change in environment that the problems began to emerge. «BBC News, Jan 15»
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Assad Blames 'Short-Sighted' Western Leaders For France Attacks …
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) prays during a religious ceremony on the occasion of Prophet Mohammed's birthday at Al-Afram mosque in Damascus on ... «International Business Times, Jan 15»
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Short-sighted? Majority of GOP voters want Boehner out as Speaker
As a tactician, it is hard to argue the case that Boehner has been ineffective or short-sighted. At the risk of sounding heretical, the GOP base could do with a little ... «Hot Air, Jan 15»
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Van Hollen: Cuts to CDC, NIH 'short-sighted'
"I hope, as Congress considers the budgets in the future, they'll recognize that cuts that have been made to NIH are short-sighted for a whole variety of reasons," ... «The Hill, Oct 14»

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