visually challenged

1. 1.

   having greatly reduced vision

   Synonymsdim-sightednear-blindpurblindsand-blindvisually impaired

   Similarblind

Questions about visually challenged

What does visually challenged mean?

visually challenged means "having greatly reduced vision".

What is another word for visually challenged?

Close synonyms include dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired. 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 visually challenged a common word?

visually challenged 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.