myopic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /maɪˈɒpɪk/    美 /maɪˈoʊpɪk/|/maɪˈɑpɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short-sighted individual.
    — The offbeat little girls of “Playdate,” whose mothers stumble through parenthood, are not the first characters to feel like cultural descendants of Salinger’s children, those savants, myopics, guileless nose pickers and practicing belchers who seem to glow on the page, highlighting the shallowness of the adults.
形容词 adj.
  1. Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
    — Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye.
  2. Shortsighted; improvident. figuratively
    — The real problem, he insists, is the myopic mentality that has failed to address climate change to date. The rich world’s indifference to the despoliation of the environment in pursuit of short-term economic gain is rooted in a wider problem.
  3. Narrow-minded. figuratively
    — Scientific advances can draw us outside of our myopic comfort zone.

词形变化

more myopic comparative most myopic superlative myopics plural

词汇关系

近义词
short-sighted near-sighted
衍生词
anisomyopic isomyopic myopically nonmyopic unmyopic
相关词
myopia

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English myopia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English myopic
From myopia + -ic.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English myopia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English myopic
From myopia + -ic.
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