The idea that reading makes you short-sighted has been popular for a couple of hundred years.
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Short-sighted
Synonyms for "short-sighted" (29 found)
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Related words (14)
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16 translations across 12 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bəsirətsiz adj (lacking foresight)
- uzaqgörməz adj (lacking foresight)
Bulgarian
1 entries- недалновиден adj (lacking foresight)
Catalan
1 entries- curt de mires adj (lacking foresight)
Dutch
1 entries- kortzichtig adj (lacking foresight)
Finnish
1 entries- lyhytnäköinen adj (lacking foresight)
German
1 entries- kurzsichtig adj (lacking foresight)
Macedonian
2 entries- кратковид adj (lacking foresight)
- кусоглед adj (lacking foresight)
Russian
2 entries- близору́кий adj (lacking foresight)
- недальнови́дный adj (lacking foresight)
Slovak
1 entries- krátkozraký adj (lacking foresight)
Spanish
1 entries- cortoplacista adj (lacking foresight)
Swedish
1 entries- kortsynt adj (lacking foresight)
Turkish
2 entries- basiretsiz adj (lacking foresight)
- öngörüsüz adj (lacking foresight)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted.
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Appointed commissioners who nobody votes for and who cannot be voted out frame all the laws, and these are then merely rubber-stamped by the European parliament. It's actually scary what this could potentially mean. It's a despot's dream set-up. Very short-sighted to vote to remain.
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Tom is slightly short-sighted.
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