Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having sharp, bright eyes; keen-sighted.
- adjective Mentally acute or perceptive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having clear, bright eyes; clear-sighted; possessing acute and penetrating vision; hence, mentally acute or discerning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Acutely perceptive or discerning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having clear, sharp
sight - adjective Mentally
acute andperspicacious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
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Examples
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Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter.
Chapter 2 2010
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And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money.
Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011
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But Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist who wrote speeches for Reagan, said conservatives "need to be clear-eyed about Reagan" and how he sought to implement the principles he espoused.
Reagan at 100 casts shadow over Republican Party Dan Balz 2011
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They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady.
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This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences -- especially subsequent wars -- up until the present in Afghanistan.
Jamie Stiehm: The Vietnam War Ghost: Does It Still Live in Obama's White House? Jamie Stiehm 2011
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This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences -- especially subsequent wars -- up until the present in Afghanistan.
Jamie Stiehm: The Vietnam War Ghost: Does It Still Live in Obama's White House? Jamie Stiehm 2011
takchess commented on the word clear-eyed
Heard this twice this week. In a Hillary Clinton interview and this obituary by Margalit Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-reporter-in-the-middle-east-dies-at-43.html?ref=margalitfox
March 5, 2012