far-sighted, a.
(fɑːˈsaɪtɪd)
[f. far adv. + sight + -ed2.]
Furnished with a capacity for distant vision.
1. fig. Looking far before one; forecasting, shrewd, prudent.
| 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. Wks. 1738 I. 75 The fair and far⁓sighted eye of his natural discerning. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 262 To man she has given understanding, far-sighted faculty. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xv. (1856) 116 This far-sighted commander had..salted down..many of these birds. 1865 Tylor Early Hist. Man. xi. 303 A few far-sighted thinkers. |
2. lit. Able to see objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand.
| 1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 820/1 This kind of eye is called hypermetropic, or far-sighted. |
Hence far-sightedly adv., in a far-sighted manner. far-sightedness, the state of being far-sighted. lit. and fig.
| 1860 Mill Repr. Govt. (1861) 138 Any measure..truly, largely, and far sightedly conservative. 1884 Times (weekly ed.) 20 June 5 The mother country must show herself farsightedly liberal. 1824–9 Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 243 Verily our Prophet did well and with far⁓sightedness in forbidding the human form..to be graven. 1881 Le Conte Monoc. Vision 48 This defect is often called..far-sightedness. |