Definition of "near-blind" [near-blind]

• Having greatly reduced vision (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Things were looking good – as good as they can for a near-blind 93-year-old with a generous and kind heart."
• "In Florida Robert Kingett, a near-blind student who suffers from tunnel vision and other conditions, says the Kindle is just a useless slab of plastic for him."
• "Shoko Asahara, the near-blind Japanese cult leader who masterminded the 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, hangs this month for killing twenty-seven people and injuring about 5,000 more in a string of nerve gassings and other attacks."