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DIM-SIGHTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dim-sighted mean?
• DIM-SIGHTED (adjective)
The adjective DIM-SIGHTED has 1 sense:
1. having greatly reduced vision
Familiarity information: DIM-SIGHTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having greatly reduced vision
Synonyms:
dim-sighted; near-blind; purblind; sand-blind; visually challenged; visually impaired
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Context examples
This man, who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better; at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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