Clear-sighted

Quick meaning: Clear-sighted is an adjective meaning Having sharp vision.

Meaning

Having sharp vision.

More Meanings

1. Acutely perceptive or discerning; perspicacious.

Example Sentences

Eventually, in 1970, at a Meeting in Aberdeen, he appeared drunk and stated that his word was of such consequence that the Bible was no longer necessary - a bombshell that caused a number of clearer-sighted Brethren to protest and break away.

Who can form even a likely guess as to what is to succeed, even the best-informed and clearest-sighted Russian, except as to his own immediate neighborhood? The proceedings of one neighborhood cannot in the least be inferred from those of another.

Even the clearer-sighted prisoners make their own compromises with reality. An amiable artist (Lon Huber) had left his hiding place for a walk even though he knew the danger, while the best-informed of the lot, a Marxist electrician (Tim O’Hare), lives his own life as a historical abstraction amid a larger class struggle.

Word Forms

• clearer-sighted
• clearest-sighted
• clearsighted

Synonyms for clear-sighted

Depending on context, synonyms include clear-eyed, discerning, perspicacious, sighted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clear-eyed, sighted, perspicacious, discerning, perceptive, lucid.

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