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adj. - Abnormal ability to focus of distant objects.

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Usage examples (16)
  • Mr. Wills's eye for political misinterpretation seems hyperopic.
  • Novartis bets on farsightedness NOVARTIS'S VISION has gone hyperopic.
  • In this case the eye is made farsighted or hyperopic in one meridian, and is normal in the other.
  • In the farsighted or hyperopic eye, the eyeball is usually too short for the rays to be properly focused on the sensitive nerve area in the back of the eye.
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