Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having weak eyes or weak sight.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word weak-eyed.
Examples
-
The library door opened, and a slender, middle-aged man, weak-eyed and eye glassed, entered.
Winged Blackmail 2010
-
I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land, I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Gorman 2008
-
The Egyptian race is chronically weak-eyed, the effect of the damp hot climate of the valley, where ophthalmia prevailed even during the pre-Pharaohnic days.
-
That the Fellahs are now congenitally weak-eyed, may be seen by comparing them with negroes imported from
-
I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land, I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
Forgotten Books - Dog Soldiers Ed Gorman 2008
-
But in my opinion, dark text on a light-colored background is better design than forcing weak-eyed readers like me to install a color zapper.
-
There were very few fine, manly dogs; the pets in greatest favour are obviously those odious weak-eyed, pink-nosed
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
-
Leah was weak-eyed; for the eyes of your souls are excessively weak.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
-
My eccentric mother, weak-eyed from childhood, who "saw men as trees walking," refused to wear her spectacles in the garden.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
-
Gunthar hardly knew what he had expected to see in a purported cleric of Paladine - perhaps a weak-eyed aesthetic, pale and lean from study.
Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.