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Definition of Dim-sighted
1. Adjective. Having greatly reduced vision.
Similar to: Blind, Unsighted
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dim-sighted
Literary usage of Dim-sighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts on man, his nature, productions and discoveries; interspersed with by William Godwin (1831)
"... and induce us to confess that, when we have done all, we are ignorant,
dim-sighted and fallible, that our best reasonings may betray, and our wisest ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"BLEAR-EYED,dim-sighted. (Scand. ... with sense of Lat. lippus, weak- sighted,
dim-sighted. This last form is closely connected with OHG prehen, bre!;en, ..."
3. Color-names and Their Congeners: A Semasiological Investigation by Francis Asbury Wood (1902)
"Like the above are words for 'dim-sighted, blind' and 'dim, dark' from such
meanings as 'bend down, sink, droop, drowse' or 'rub, press, press together, ..."
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