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blear-eyed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective blear-eyed has 1 sense
- blear-eyed(s = adj.all) blear, bleary, bleary-eyed - tired to the point of exhaustion; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
blear-eyed, a.
- Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. [1913 Webster]"The blear-eyed Crispin." [1913 Webster]
- Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
blear-eyed
Dimsightedness
N dimsightedness, dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight, dimsightedness, purblindness, lippitude, myopia, presbyopia, confusion of vision, astigmatism, color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis, Daltonism, nyctalopia, strabismus, strabism, squint, blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus, xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia, cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes, obliquity of vision, winking, nictitation, blinkard, albino, dizziness, swimming, scotomy, cataract, ophthalmia, blinker, screen, deceptio visus, refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, vision, specter, apparition, ghost, ignis fatuus, specter of the Brocken, magic mirror, magic lantern, mirror lens, dim-sighted, myopic, presbyopic, astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed, blind of one eye, monoculous, half-blind, purblind, cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole- eyed, dichroic, blind as a bat, winking.
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