What does sighted mean?

Definitions for sighted
ˈsaɪ tɪdsight·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sightedadjective

    able to see

Wiktionary

  1. sightedadjective

    Not blind

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sightedadjective

    Seeing in a particular manner: It is used only in composition, as quicksighted, shortsighted.

    Etymology: from sight.

    As they might, to avoid the weather, pull the joints of the coach up close, so they might put each end down, and remain as discovered and open sighted as on horseback. Philip Sidney.

    The king was very quick sighted in discerning difficulties, and raising objections, and very slow in mastering them. Edward Hyde.

ChatGPT

  1. sighted

    Sighted generally refers to the ability to see or having functional vision. It is often used to distinguish individuals who have a normal sense of vision from those who are visually impaired or blind. In another context, it can also refer to having seen or observed something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sighted

    of Sight

  2. Sightedadjective

    having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sighted in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sighted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sighted in a Sentence

  1. Mahabharata:

    Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.

  2. Khairul Nova:

    Nearly 400 more have been sighted at sea and fishermen are attempting to bring them to land.

  3. Vaclav Havel:

    A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

  4. Muslim Uighurs:

    We raise the cases of individuals like Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, and Pu Zhiqiang, who are unjustly detained, china's increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly -- including their visa restrictions on American journalists -- are not only wrong ; they are short-sighted. She also criticized the draft foreign NGO law that China is considering, which she said would threaten.

  5. Zach Meyers:

    In cases that involve victims of corporate human rights abuses, business-versus-consumer cases, and family law -- in those cases, the party that has more financial resources may try to introduce arguments about which country should be hearing the case, and whether a UK court judgment can be enforced, i think that the Commission's being short sighted by treating this solely as a way to withhold a favor from the UK, because this doesn't just negatively affect the UK, it will affect EU nationals too.

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