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Definition of Clear-sighted

1. Adjective. Having sharp clear vision.

2. Adjective. Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning. "Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"

Definition of Clear-sighted

1. Adjective. Having sharp vision. ¹

2. Adjective. Acutely perceptive or discerning; perspicacious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clear-sighted

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Literary usage of Clear-sighted

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

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(Cant.) 'Madders'? Yes, catholic lovers', Mayne, City Match, ii. 3 (Bright and Aurelia). clair-voyant, clear-sighted, ..."

2. A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster by Winifred Holt (1914)
"... on being asked what impression had been produced on him, replied quickly and quite simply, ' I think that he was an extraordinarily clear-sighted man. ..."

3. The Diplomatic Year: Being a Review of Mr. Seward's Foreign Correspondence by William Bradford Reed, Charles Ingersoll, Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1863)
"... can be a perfectly right-minded or clear-sighted man ; believing this, we hold the writings of such men perfectly fit subject of criticism. ..."

4. The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle: Consisting of a Translation of the by Aristotle, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, William Archibald Spooner (1879)
"... not merely as formal truths, but as particular facts of life : their ' intuition ' of right and wrong is clear-sighted and unfailing. ..."

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