Presbyopic
//pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk// adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who has presbyopia.
"These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses."
Adjective
- 1 Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
"the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]"
Adjective
- 1 able to see distant objects clearly wordnet
Example
More examples"the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]"
Etymology
From presbyopia + -ic.
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