myope

/ ˈmaɪəʊp /

noun

1. any person afflicted with myopia

Word History and Origins

Origin of myope¹

C18: via French from Greek muōps; see myopia

Example Sentences

Spitz recounts Reagan’s boyhood in Dixon, Ill., including such moments as when he discovered that the reason he couldn’t catch a baseball was not that he was a klutz but a myope.

From Washington Post

It is the physiologic method, the method of the myopes who look at things one after the other, very exactly, and then describe them successively.

From Project Gutenberg

In proportion as myopia is gradually developed in originally existing emmetropia, myopes learn to converge to the neighbourhood of their far point without allowing their accommodation to come into action.

From Project Gutenberg

The eighteen nineties will lie in their path, blocking the way like an unhealthy moat, which some myopes might almost mistake for an aquarium.

From Project Gutenberg

"And then?" asked the myope, with an anxious air.

From Project Gutenberg