Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Able to see distant objects better than objects at close range; hyperopic.
- adj. Capable of seeing to a great distance.
- adj. Planning prudently for the future; foresighted: large goals that required farsighted policies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Seeing to a great distance; seeing objects more clearly at a distance than near at hand; hyperopic or presbyopic.
- Looking far before one; considering carefully the probable results of present conduct or action; prescient: as, a far-sighted statesman; far-sighted policy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.
- adj. Being considerate about the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
- adj. (Med.) Hypermetropic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. able to see distant objects clearly
- adj. planning prudently for the future
Examples
“These people are not "farsighted" but criminally shortsighted.”
“The region, more than any other part of the country, needs that kind of farsighted investment, but instead it is treated to the shortsighted policies of the Southern politicians of the past.”
“This is really what I think secretaries of state should be doing, which is a kind of farsighted look into how the United States is going to implement its foreign policy agenda in the 21st century. ”
“There's a good argument to be made, and Krugman and others are making it, that the President's plans are all well in good but maybe a little too farsighted.”
“The more farsighted of the Palestinians no doubt realize this, which is why they have to keep the issue alive. john says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault
“Expecting him to be more morally farsighted than his time is not unreasonable.”
“Stuff like this is not going to happen without farsighted technical vision from real scientists in control of the direction of NASA, not just politicians with good connections to the Whitehouse.”
“A few farsighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention.”
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“No group articulated this revisionist interpretation of Desert Storm with greater fervor and persistence than the very same militarists mostly but not exclusively Republicans who in 1991 had cheered President Bush as a courageous and farsighted statesman.”
“In the heyday of liberal optimism during the Clinton years, it was easy to point to the most attractive forces driving globalization forward: new technologies, the spread of political freedom, the power of market economics, the creation of common interests between nations, even the wisdom of farsighted politicians.”
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