Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is affected by myopia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short-sighted person. Also
myops .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person having myopia; a myops.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who has
myopia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with myopia; a nearsighted person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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McCain's an unsustainable myope then: His robocall made the argument that his unbroken 24 years of opposition to abortion made him the real conservative, not flip-flopping Mitt Romney.
"Sir! You have to give me his accomplishments... You're on national television. Name his legislative accomplishments." Ann Althouse 2008
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Petite anglaise minus her glasses is as short-sighted as a mole myope comme une taupe rather than as blind as a bat.
superfly guy 2005
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Petite anglaise minus her glasses is as short-sighted as a mole myope comme une taupe rather than as blind as a bat.
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"The count doesn't see any better than he did -- _toujours myope, lui_" the old woman murmured to her son, with a pregnant wink, as she took her snuff.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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"Supposing these facets myope or presbyte," observed Jack, "that gives seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty-five pairs of spectacles on one nose!"
Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien
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Then he can dissect beetles like Straus Derekheim, without becoming a myope.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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His face, which was clean shaven, was the face of a hawk, with the contracted myope vision characteristic of that bird.
The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Dr. Wood (U.S. Disp.) discredits the opinion, expressed by some, that a rice diet produces injurious effects on the eyes -- the condition of myope, for instance.
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“edentee, myope, rugueuse, ou bossue,” my feelings towards her might still have been kindly, but they could never have been impassioned; I had affection for the poor little misshapen
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[Footnote 51: Or standard-bearer.] [Footnote 52: _i. e._ the One-eyed (syn. le myope, the short-sighted, the Italian word [_Il Bornio_] having both meanings), _i. e.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
oroboros commented on the word myope
I mighta knowed you'd listed this word, R. I just "made it up"! ;^)
July 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word myope
You made it up? And it's in all the dictionaries?? Good grief, oroboros--how old ARE you? ;-)
July 30, 2007
oroboros commented on the word myope
My Original Face is older than OLD! ;o)
July 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word myope
And comes with its own dictionary too! :-)
July 30, 2007