Roget's Thesaurus

#443. Dimsightedness

Nouns

dim sight, dull sight, half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness etc.; purblindness, lippitude; myopia, presbyopia; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis, Daltonism; nyctalopia; strabismus, strabism, squint; blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision. winking etc. v.; nictitation; blinkard, albino. dizziness, swimming, scotomy; cataract; ophthalmia. [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen etc. (hider) 530. [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma; phantasm, phantasma, phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.] etc. (luminary) 423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; magic lantern etc. (show) 448; mirror lens etc. (instrument) 445.

Verbs

be dimsighted etc. n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant, askant askance; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate. dazzle, loom.

Adjectives

dim-sighted etc. n.; myopic, presbyopic; astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-eyed; dichroic. blind as a bat etc. (blind) 442; winking etc. v..