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Definition of Quick-sighted

1. Adjective. Having very keen vision. "Quick-sighted as a cat"

2. Adjective. Keenly perceptive or alert. "Quick-sighted into the faults of the time"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quick-sighted

quichelike quiches quiches lorraines quiching quick quick-and-dirty quick-change(a) quick-draw quick-eared quick-fire

quick-freeze quick-freezes quick-freezing quick-froze quick-frozen quick-sighted (current term) quick-stop mutant quick-tempered quick-witted quick-wittedly

quick-wittedness quick and dirty quick as a flash quick bread quick buck quick cure resin quick fix quick light

Literary usage of Quick-sighted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"... than to negligence: for the common sailors, how strongly soever attached to their own prejudices, are very quick sighted in finding out the defects of ..."

2. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"... but always to fly upward, and look to the " Sun of righteousness," and have the eyes of his mind quick-sighted. For this table is the table of eagles ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... quick-sighted ness, power to fathom wiles. Astute, a. ... keen-sighted, clear-sighted, quick- sighted. Asunder, ad. and a. Apart, into two parts, ..."

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