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Definition of Sharp-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 Sharp-sighted

sharn sharnier sharniest sharns sharny sharp-and-a-half sharp-cornered sharp-eared sharp-eyed sharp-limbed

sharp-pointed sharp-set sharp-shinned hawk sharp-shinned hawks sharp-sighted (current term) sharp-sightedness sharp-tailed grouse sharp-tongued sharp-witted sharp-worded

sharp as a tack sharp cookie sharp practice sharp tongue sharpbill sharpbills sharpchin flyingfish sharpe

Literary usage of Sharp-sighted

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

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"They are about two and a quarter minutes of arc apart, and exceptionally sharp-sighted persons are able to see them divided with the naked eye. ..."

2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"A residence of some years in this country generally develops their intelligence into a sort of sharp-sighted calculating shrewdness, which they do not bring ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"was>so sharp sighted he could see through the earth, and distinguish objects nine miles off. ... sharp sighted ..."

4. The Zulus and the British Frontiers by Thomas J. Lucas (1879)
"Dapper little Hottentots.—Arms and uniform.—Their horses.—Cavalry and Infantry in one corps.—Our Cavalry Colonel.—Our Infantry Colonel.—sharp-sighted" ..."

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