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myopic

[ US /maɪˈɑpɪk/ ]
[ UK /ma‍ɪˈɒpɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unable to see distant objects clearly
  2. lacking foresight or scope
    shortsighted critics derided the plan
    shortsighted policies
    myopic thinking
    a short view of the problem

How To Use myopic In A Sentence

  • Else your myopic Irish Goodbye may get you a lapful of Irish Coffee, at least from karma. Tom Miller: The Relative Merits of the Irish Goodbye
  • Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity.
  • It appears that you would rather shlep through your existence unaware, uneducated, uninformed while wearing blinders that limits your already myopic reality. Think Progress » Texas Tea Party candidate: ‘There are some very good arguments’ that government was involved in 9/11.
  • With all the difficulties which naturally surround such an examination they found that in fifty-two eyes of rabbits, thirty-six were hypermetropic and astigmatic, eight were hypermetropic only, five were myopic and astigmatic, and others presented mixed astigmatism. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
  • The word myopic has appeared in 38 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 21 in the Op-Ed article, "The Sun Is the Best Optometrist," by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang: NYT > Home Page
  • The danger is that we can become selfishly myopic, turning our hearts toward home but our backs to the needs of the world. Christianity Today
  • Richardson, 46, said that her parents had been reduced to caricatures of a "bisexual father" and "Marxist mother" which she described as "myopic". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • I was Thomas Hockenberry again — shorter, thinner, gawkier, with my slightly myopic gaze and thinning hair. Ilium
  • There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
  • Anyone who calls the event "pointless" is myopic at best. One Tenth Scale Saturn V to Fly - NASA Watch
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