longsighted

Questions about longsighted

What does longsighted mean?

longsighted means "capable of seeing to a great distance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in longsighted?

longsighted has 3 syllables: long-sigh-ted. The stress falls on "long".

What is another word for longsighted?

Close synonyms include eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, farseeing, farseeing, farsighted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is longsighted a common word?

longsighted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.