Clear-eyed

Quick meaning: Clear-eyed is an adjective meaning Having clear, sharp sight.

Meaning

Having clear, sharp sight.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Mentally acute and perspicacious.

Example Sentences

"The golden age is over," muses Tamara, but one of her clearer-eyed colleagues is quick to correct her: "The gravy train has been derailed, you mean."

Hollande was always clear-eyed about Vladimir Putin, setting himself apart from a French political tradition that has often been more complacent about Russia.

The new government of President Jacob Zuma seems to have a clearer-eyed view of the problem, its remedies and the need to improve the overall health care system than its predecessor did.

Another is the smoldering radicalism of eternal student Terrence Moses (Marc Ewing, aptly intense), once the family’s tutor, now smitten with Anna and perhaps the clearest-eyed person in the play.

Word Forms

• clearer-eyed
• clearest-eyed
• cleareyed

Synonyms for clear-eyed

Depending on context, synonyms include clear-sighted, sharp-eyed, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, falcon-eyed, lynx-eyed.

Antonyms for clear-eyed

Common opposites include foggy, blurry, muddle-headed, muddled, muddied, addleheaded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clear-sighted, perspicacious, discerning, clearsighted, sightful, clear.

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