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myopic

[ US /maɪˈɑpɪk/ ]
[ UK /ma‍ɪˈɒpɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unable to see distant objects clearly
  2. lacking foresight or scope
    shortsighted critics derided the plan
    shortsighted policies
    myopic thinking
    a short view of the problem

How To Use myopic In A Sentence

  • The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid. India vs China SnapShot
  • My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders. Brownie Points
  • In the recent check up I was diagnosed with early stage of chronic open angle glaucoma in both eyes by computerised field perimetry - left eye more than right, although left eye is much less myopic than right one.
  • Retinal degeneration is more common in myopic eyes but it's not exactly related to macular degeneration.
  • If you become less gluttonous, less greedy, less myopic, more savvy about the world in general, they don't win; you win.
  • Like land-based versions of dragonfish, they use this private wavelength to ambush myopic prey like tiny poachers in night-vision goggles. Smithsonian Mag
  • What a myopic, blinkered clod their letters page editor must be.
  • In listening to these works with their clumsy blocks of tone, their eternal sunless complaining, their lack of humor where they would be humorous, their lack of passion where they would be profound, their sardonic and monotonous bourdon, one is perforce reminded of the photograph of Reger which his publishers place on the cover of their catalogue of his works, the photograph that shows something that is like a swollen, myopic beetle with thick lips and sullen expression crouching on an organ-bench. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
  • That's a classic, myopic view. Times, Sunday Times
  • If Ontarians ever made the same gesture, it would prompt the Feds to finally realize that killing the goose that lays the golden egg for the whole country is the outcome of their disregardful tactics and myopic vision.
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