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HYPERMETROPIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hypermetropic mean?
• HYPERMETROPIC (adjective)
The adjective HYPERMETROPIC has 1 sense:
1. abnormal ability to focus of distant objects
Familiarity information: HYPERMETROPIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects
Synonyms:
hypermetropic; hyperopic
Similar:
farsighted; presbyopic (able to see distant objects clearly)
Domain category:
ophthalmology (the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases)
Derivation:
hypermetropia; hypermetropy (abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects)
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