A farsighted person is one who cannot see near objects so distinctly as far objects, and who in many cases cannot see near objects at all.
The eyeball of a farsighted person is very short, and the retina is too close to the crystalline lens.
Even then a few farsighted men could foresee the day when the railroad train would cross the plains and the Rockies and link the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Early distaste for reading is often acquired byfarsighted persons, owing to the strain on the accommodative apparatus.
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.
The farsighted eye is one in which parallel rays entering the eye, as from a distance, come to a focus behind the retina.
In the nearsighted eye, these rays focus at a point in front of the retina; while in the farsighted eye these rays focus behind the retina; the nearsighted eye being elongated, and the farsighted eye being shortened.
In this case the eye is made farsighted or hyperopic in one meridian, and is normal in the other.
For this reason it is necessary for persons over forty-five years of age, having normal or farsighted eyes, to wear convex glasses in reading or doing near work, and these should be changed for stronger ones every year or two.
Yet when one is looking at an object within a few inches of the eye the rays diverge or spread out, and these the normal eye (if rigid) could not focus on the retina--much less the farsighted eye.
Eye-strain is caused by astigmatism in the same manner that it is brought about in the simple farsighted eye, i.
The community cannot rise much above the level of the individual home, and the home rises only by the pull of the community regulations, or by the initiative of a few especially farsighted individuals.
The persistent efforts of the farsighted to secure a place in education for the subjects fundamental to the modern home are now respectfully listened to.
The purchaser was a thrifty, farsighted traveling man who had wearied of the road and wanted to settle down.
All that is necessary is that the courts as a whole should exercise this power with the farsighted wisdom already shown by those judges who scan the future while they act in the present.
Fifty years ago, a farsighted America led in creating the institutions that secured victory in the Cold War and built a growing world economy.
A farsighted and highly successful program for meeting urgent water needs is being carded out by converting salt water to fresh water.
A farsighted America moved the world to a better place over these last 50 years.
He died the victim of his many treasons, by the farsighted barbarism of his accomplices.
Robespierre, Danton, and Billaud-Varenne were farsighted enough to detect the conspiracy hidden beneath these ostensible preparations for war.
A Farsighted Policy The farsighted policy of President Young was the means of placing the people in their own homes where they could dwell "safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
He is a progressive, energetic and farsightedbusiness man and is meeting with well merited success.
As a means of stimulating consideration of the subject and of promoting farsighted planning for the future, the committee has adopted as its slogan the statement, "Every American city needs a city plan now.
He was one of Egypt's most capable andfarsighted kings, and being as well a fearless warrior, he carried all before him.
The Japanese are a farsighted people and war with them is an exact science.
The Japanese are a farsighted and subtle people, with brains four thousand years old.
The invention of the steamboat just a century ago was an incentive indirectly to canal growth but there were other things that halted the minds of farsighted and conservative men.
It was quite clear to these farsighted men from the outset that the canal was not the real solution of the transportation problem upon which rested the internal development of the United States.
There was much in the state both of Scotland and of Ireland which might well excite the painful apprehensions of a farsighted statesman.
The vices of the old representative system, though by no means so serious as they afterwards became, had already been remarked by farsighted men.
The greater part of the land was still unclaimed and uncultivated and the most farsighted could scarcely have dreamed of what the future held in store for this rich district.
What farsighted men started the movement which resulted in our national government's making a great scenic park in Virginia?
Miller was farsighted in his plans for the community and provided adequate building sites for homes and businesses.
He was a farsighted man and one who on recognizing a public need at once sought to meet it.
McCorkill, and proving able, farsighted and discriminating in the discharge of his professional duties.
He gives earnest and thoughtful consideration to the questions of the day and is farsighted in his outlook over the political field with all that it implies in its relation to the welfare, progress and prosperity of the province and dominion.
Besides being an able educator and a farsighted and reliable business man, Father MacMahon is known also as a preacher of rare ability and power and has filled most of the pulpits in Montreal and the vicinity in a creditable manner.
The church property is ably administered, Father Donnelly proving himself a capable, farsighted and energetic business man as well as a zealous, sincere and untiring servant of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farsighted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
