Definitions

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  • adjective Having dim sight; lacking perception.

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  • adjective having greatly reduced vision

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Examples

  • Yefrem, nicknamed the Mole, a little, bent man with a sharp nose and dim-sighted eyes.

    The Inn 2006

  • But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch.

    Moll Flanders 2003

  • It is dim-sighted in the day-time, but sees well enough by night.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The hybris, said by some to be the same as the eagle-owl, is never seen by daylight, as it is dim-sighted, but during the night it hunts like the eagle; it will fight the eagle with such desperation that the two combatants are often captured alive by shepherds; it lays two eggs, and, like others we have mentioned, it builds on rocks and in caverns.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought.

    For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983

  • Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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