Quick-sighted

Quick meaning: Quick-sighted is an adjective meaning Having keen vision.

Meaning

Having keen vision.

More Meanings

1. Keenly perceptive.

Example Sentences

The quick-sighted hawk saw the small mouse from a great height.

Gold is a ſutor, neuer tooke repulſe, […] It thawes the froſtieſt, and moſt ſtiffe diſdaine: / Muffles the clearneſſe of Election, / Straines fancie vnto foule Apoſtacie, / And ſtrikes the quickeſt-ſighted Iudgement blinde.

She loved every body, was interested in every body’s happiness, quick-sighted to every body’s merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.

She ſoon perceived theſe Agitations of Mind in Jones, and was at no Loſs to diſcover the Cauſe; for indeed ſhe recognized it in her own Breaſt. And this Recognition is, I ſuppoſe, that Sympathy which hath been ſo often noted in Lovers, and which will ſufficiently account for her being ſo much quicker-ſighted than her Father.

Word Forms

• quicker-sighted
• quickest-sighted
• quicksighted

Synonyms for quick-sighted

Depending on context, synonyms include perceptive, sharp-eyed, sighted, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sharp-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, sighted, perceptive, clear-sighted.

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