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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicaciousadjective

    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

    "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"

Wiktionary

  1. clear-eyedadjective

    Having clear, sharp sight

  2. clear-eyedadjective

    Mentally acute and perspicacious

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clear-eyed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clear-eyed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of clear-eyed in a Sentence

  1. President Biden:

    The world must be clear-eyed about the actions Russia is threatening and ready to respond to the risks those actions present to all of us.

  2. Antony Blinken:

    Turkey is an ally, that in many ways... is not acting as an ally should and this is a very, very significant challenge for us and we’re very clear-eyed about it.

  3. Scott Jennings:

    My experience with him was he was clear-eyed, no nonsense, no sugarcoating, no bullshitting. Just giving you the straight reality of what you needed to do.

  4. President Biden:

    He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met, and there is no question that Russia is the aggressor, so, we’re clear-eyed about the challenges we’re facing.

  5. George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999:

    In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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