Myopic
adjective
Unable to see things clearly that are far away, needing glasses to correct this.
He is myopic and can't see distant objects clearly without his glasses.
Often appears as...
- myopic vision
- myopic person
adjective
Limited in the ability to think or see future possibilities, only thinking about the future in a narrow, short-sighted way.
The company has been accused of having a myopic view of the future, focusing only on short term profits.
Often appears as...
- myopic view
- myopic focus
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Unable to see things clearly that are far away, needing glasses to correct this.
He is myopic and can't see distant objects clearly without his glasses.
Often appears as...
- myopic vision
- myopic person
adjective
Limited in the ability to think or see future possibilities, only thinking about the future in a narrow, short-sighted way.
The company has been accused of having a myopic view of the future, focusing only on short term profits.
Often appears as...
- myopic view
- myopic focus
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
The word 'myopic' in this context refers to the physical condition of the eyes.
Due to his myopic condition, he wears glasses for driving.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Myopic' describes a vision issue neutrally, without implying it's the person's fault.
Regular eye exams can help identify if someone is becoming myopic.
Pro Tip 3/3Health Context
Often used in medical or health-related discussions rather than everyday conversation.
The optometrist explained the effects of myopic degeneration.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
The word 'myopic' in this context refers to the physical condition of the eyes.
Due to his myopic condition, he wears glasses for driving.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Myopic' describes a vision issue neutrally, without implying it's the person's fault.
Regular eye exams can help identify if someone is becoming myopic.
Pro Tip 3/3Health Context
Often used in medical or health-related discussions rather than everyday conversation.
The optometrist explained the effects of myopic degeneration.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Meaning
The word 'myopic' in this context refers to the physical condition of the eyes.
Due to his myopic condition, he wears glasses for driving.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
'Myopic' describes a vision issue neutrally, without implying it's the person's fault.
Regular eye exams can help identify if someone is becoming myopic.
Pro Tip 3/3Health Context
Often used in medical or health-related discussions rather than everyday conversation.
The optometrist explained the effects of myopic degeneration.
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
Impoverished imagination, a myopic view of the world -- that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is, if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible,
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How do glasses help us...
and in others, too little. Eyes with a focal point in front of the retina are called myopic, or short-sighted. They can see close objects clearly, but those far away are out of focus. But when the focus point is behind the retina, people are hyperopic, or long-sighted.
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
sock full of air you can see that the wind is blowing from the elephant to us and that means the elephant will not smell us and their eyesight is good probably about as good as ours maybe they're a little bit more myopic than some but their eyesight is generally
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
Frustrated by this myopic view, my friend and I had this crazy Let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of Ramadan and share those stories on a blog. We called it "30 Mosques in 30 Days," and we drove to all the 50 states
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What intelligent...
that feels like a really different kind of intelligence. For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on,
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A fascinating time...
That is a myopic pinprick of time when you think of the evolution and the story of life on this planet. Turns out we're all in the cheap seats and none of us will live to see how it all pans out. So at my company, we wanted a way around this.
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James Stavridis: How...
To give you one example of the impact this can have, this little boy, eight years old, walked with his mother two days to come to the eye clinic put on by the Comfort. When he was fitted, over his extremely myopic eyes,
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The mind behind Linux PIPE...
sometimes I'm also shall we say, "myopic" when it comes to other people's feelings, and that sometimes makes you say things that hurt other people. And I'm not proud of that. But, at the same time, it's --
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A Navy Admiral's...
fitted over his extremely myopic eyes he suddenly looked up and said mama veo el mundo mom I see the world multiply this by four hundred thousand patient treatments this private-public
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Exclusive: Colombian...
myopic they don't see the reality after every peace process there's a backlash and there's leftovers of the
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
Impoverished imagination, a myopic view of the world -- that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is, if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible,
Video examples
How do glasses help us...
and in others, too little. Eyes with a focal point in front of the retina are called myopic, or short-sighted. They can see close objects clearly, but those far away are out of focus. But when the focus point is behind the retina, people are hyperopic, or long-sighted.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
sock full of air you can see that the wind is blowing from the elephant to us and that means the elephant will not smell us and their eyesight is good probably about as good as ours maybe they're a little bit more myopic than some but their eyesight is generally
Video examples
Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
Frustrated by this myopic view, my friend and I had this crazy Let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of Ramadan and share those stories on a blog. We called it "30 Mosques in 30 Days," and we drove to all the 50 states
Video examples
What intelligent...
that feels like a really different kind of intelligence. For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on,
Video examples
A fascinating time...
That is a myopic pinprick of time when you think of the evolution and the story of life on this planet. Turns out we're all in the cheap seats and none of us will live to see how it all pans out. So at my company, we wanted a way around this.
Video examples
James Stavridis: How...
To give you one example of the impact this can have, this little boy, eight years old, walked with his mother two days to come to the eye clinic put on by the Comfort. When he was fitted, over his extremely myopic eyes,
Video examples
The mind behind Linux PIPE...
sometimes I'm also shall we say, "myopic" when it comes to other people's feelings, and that sometimes makes you say things that hurt other people. And I'm not proud of that. But, at the same time, it's --
Video examples
A Navy Admiral's...
fitted over his extremely myopic eyes he suddenly looked up and said mama veo el mundo mom I see the world multiply this by four hundred thousand patient treatments this private-public
Video examples
Exclusive: Colombian...
myopic they don't see the reality after every peace process there's a backlash and there's leftovers of the
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Quote examples
Joan Cusack
American Actress
I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.
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Jason Silva
American Director
Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.
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Idina Menzel
American Actress
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
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Huma Qureshi
Indian Actress
Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.
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Joe Klein
American Journalist
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
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Rick Perry
American Politician
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.
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Nancy Pearcey
American Author
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
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Maya Soetoro-Ng
American Educator
I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
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Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Joan Cusack
American Actress
I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.
Quote examples
Jason Silva
American Director
Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.
Quote examples
Idina Menzel
American Actress
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
Quote examples
Huma Qureshi
Indian Actress
Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.
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Joe Klein
American Journalist
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
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Rick Perry
American Politician
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.
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Nancy Pearcey
American Author
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
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Maya Soetoro-Ng
American Educator
I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
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Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.
Quote examples
Camille Paglia
American Author
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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