Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - short-sighted

also shortsighted 1. If you are short-sighted, you cannot see things properly when they are far away, because there is something wrong with your eyes. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use near-sighted) Testing showed her to be very short-sighted. ? long-sighted ADJ • short-sightedness Radical eye surgery promises to cure short-sightedness. N-UNCOUNT 2. If someone is short-sighted about something, or if their ideas are short-sighted, they do not make proper or careful judgments about the future. Environmentalists fear that this is a short-sighted approach to the problem of global warming... ADJ • short-sightedness The government now recognises the short-sightedness of this approach. N-UNCOUNT