Usually means: Lacking foresight, focusing on immediate.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-sighted, short-sighted: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Short-Sighted, Short-sighted, short-sighted: Wordnik
  3. short-sighted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. short-sighted: Wiktionary
  5. short-sighted: Dictionary.com
  6. short-sighted: Online Etymology Dictionary
  7. Short-sighted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. short-sighted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. short-sighted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short-sighted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short-sighted: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.
adjective:  (figuratively) Unable to see long-term objectives; lacking foresight.

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