Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "dim-sighted" [dim•-sight•ed]

  • Having dim sight; lacking perception. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "dim-sighted" in a sentence
  • "Yefrem, nicknamed the Mole, a little, bent man with a sharp nose and dim-sighted eyes."
  • "But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch."
  • "The hybris, said by some to be the same as the eagle-owl, is never seen by daylight, as it is dim-sighted, but during the night it hunts like the eagle; it will fight the eagle with such desperation that the two combatants are often captured alive by shepherds; it lays two eggs, and, like others we have mentioned, it builds on rocks and in caverns."