Longsighted

3 definitions found

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

  Long-sighted \Long"-sight`ed\, a.
     1. Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having
        great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not


        close at hand; hypermetropic.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  longsighted
       adj 1: capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: {eagle-eyed}, {keen-sighted},
               {farseeing}]
       2: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that
          required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the
          geopolitical issues" [syn: {farseeing}, {farsighted}, {foresighted},
           {foresightful}, {long}]

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

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