Farsighted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Farsighted \Far"sight`ed\, a.
     1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment
        regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
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     2. (Med.) Hypermetropic.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  farsighted
       adj 1: able to see distant objects clearly [syn: {presbyopic}]
              [ant: {nearsighted}]
       2: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that
          required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the
          geopolitical issues" [syn: {farseeing}, {foresighted}, {foresightful},
           {long}, {longsighted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "farsighted":
     Argus-eyed, acute, anticipant, anticipatory, apperceptive,
     appercipient, argute, asquint, astigmatic, astute, blink-eyed,
     blinking, blinky, cat-eyed, clairvoyant, clear-eyed, clear-sighted,
     cogent, discerning, divinatory, eagle-eyed, eye-minded, farseeing,
     ferret-eyed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted,
     forethoughted, forethoughtful, hawk-eyed, incisive, intuitive,
     longheaded, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted,
     penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous,
     piercing, poor-sighted, precognitive, precognizant, prepared,
     presbyopic, prescient, provident, providential, prudent, ready,
     sagacious, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, shortsighted, squinch-eyed,
     squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic,
     telescopic, trenchant, understanding, winking