Longsighted

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Characterized by the capacity to clearly perceive distant objects while facing challenges with near vision
2. denoting an individual whose foresight prioritizes long-term goals over short-term gains
3. Describing someone who sees faraway things clearly but struggles to see things close up ; thinking ahead with careful planning for future benefits rather than immediate results

Etymology: "Longsighted" is simply the closed-up spelling of "long-sighted," an adjective meaning able to see distant things clearly while near objects blur. The word is built from two plain English parts: "long," meaning far or extended in distance, and "sighted," from "sight," the faculty of seeing. The same pattern produces "farsighted" in American usage and "hypermetropic" in medical language, though "long-sighted" is the everyday British and Commonwealth term for the condition. The hyphen is the only real difference between the two forms. Dictionaries record both, and the closed spelling has become the more common variant in print, so readers will meet either without any change in meaning.

Synonyms: farsighted, visionary, farseeing, perceptive, imaginative

Antonyms: nearsighted, short-sighted, blind, unperceptive, myopic