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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Unable to see distant objects clearly; myopic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Short-sighted; seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Alternative form of near-sighted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective unable to see distant objects clearly

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