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Definition: Myopic |
MyopicAdjective1. (ophthalmology) inability to focus on distant objects. 2. Visual impairment resulting from faulty refraction of light rays in the eye. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "myopic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonyms: MyopicSynonyms: ametropic (adj), astigmatic (adj), presbyopic (adj), shortsighted (adj), visually impaired (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Myopic |
| Specialty definitions using "myopic": Strasburg Goose. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Myopic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.61% of the time. "Myopic" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.61% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.39% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "myopic": myopic astigmatism. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
myopic | 21 |
degeneration myopic | 10 |
myopic macular degeneration | 5 |
girl high myopic | 5 |
book myopic | 5 |
girl myopic | 4 |
myopic son | 2 |
define myopic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "myopic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | miop (mope-eyed, nearsighted, shortsighted), dritëshkurtër (mope-eyed, nearsighted, purblind, shortsighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قصير البصر (myope, short-sighted), أحسر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | късоглед (myope, near-sighted, owlish, short-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 近视 (Myopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krátkozraký (nearsighted, shortsighted, short-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | conus temporalis (myopic conus, myopic crescent), conus myopicus (myopic conus, myopic crescent), chorioretinitis myopica (myopic choroidoretinitis), chorioiditis myopica (myopic choroiditis), astigmatismus myopicus (myopic astigmatism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | myopisch astigmatisme (myopic astigmatism), papilla anulata (distraction conus, myopic conus, myopic crescent), choroiditis myopica (myopic choroiditis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | myope (myope). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kurzsichtig (nearsighted, near-sighted, nearsightedly, purblind, shortsighted, short-sighted, short-sightedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυωπικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קצר ראי" (nearsighted, shortsighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rövidlátó (blear-eyed, myope, nearsighted, near-sighted, purblind, short-sighted), közellátó (nearsighted, near-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lamur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | miope (myope, nearsighted, near-sighted, short-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giare-reayrtagh (near-sighted, purblind, short-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yopicmay míope (mope-eyed, myope, near-sighted, purblind, short-sighted), que sofre de miopia. (various references) близорукий (mope-eyed, nearsighted, near-sighted, shortsighted, short-sighted). (various references) kratkovid (nearsighted, near-sighted, shortsighted, short-sighted). (various references) miope (near-sighted, short-sighted). (various references) myopisk, närsynt (myope, near-sighted, short-sighted). (various references) ใจแคบ (hidebound, narrow-minded, small-minded), ซึ่งสายตาสั้น (nearsighted). (various references) miyop (myope, nearsighted, short-sighted), uzağı göremeyen (nearsighted, short-sighted). (various references) короткозорий (bleary-eyed, dim-sighted, mope-eyed, near-sighted). (various references) cận thị (beetle-eyed, near-sighted). (various references) byr ei olwg (near-sighted, short-sighted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "myopic": myopically. (additional references) | |
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"Myopic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: miopic, mipoic, Mopc, mopish, mycolic, myop, myopa, myope, myoped, myopes, myopics, myopicy, myoptic, myotis, mytopic, naypic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "myopic" (pronounced mīÄ"pik) |
| 4 | -Ä" p i k | endoscopic, geotropic, gyroscopic, isotopic, microscopic, philanthropic, topic, tropic. |
| 3 | -p i k | epic, laparoscopic, monocarpic, phenotypic, philippic, telescopic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-m-o-p-y" | |
-2 letters: comp, copy, mopy, pyic. | |
-3 letters: cop, coy, icy, imp, moc, mop, pic, poi, pom, yip, yom. | |
-4 letters: mi, mo, my, om, op, oy, pi, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-m-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: miscopy. | |
+2 letters: eponymic, impolicy. | |
+3 letters: amblyopic, complying, diplomacy, hypomanic, hypoxemic, impotency, microcopy, micropyle, monotypic, multicopy, mycophile, myopathic, polygamic, polymeric, puromycin, symphonic, toponymic. | |
+4 letters: asymptotic, companying, compatibly, complexify, complexity, compliancy, complicacy, complicity, hypocorism, hypodermic, importancy, lycopodium, mesophytic, microphyll, micropylar, micropyles, microscopy, miscopying, mycophiles, myopically, mythopoeic, patronymic, plyometric, polyatomic, polymathic, premycotic, puromycins, pyromaniac, pyrometric. | |
+5 letters: amphictyony, amylopectin, coemploying, compliantly, compositely, copolymeric, cryptogamic, cryptomeria, cytoplasmic, hypnopompic, hypocorisms, hypodermics, hypokalemic, hypomorphic, hypothermic, hypsometric, impoliticly, imprecatory, kymographic, lycopodiums, lymphocytic, macrophytic, mesophyllic, microphylls, mycophagies, mycophagist, myelopathic, mythopoetic, patronymics, plasmolytic, plyometrics, polemically, polymorphic, promiscuity, pyromancies, pyromaniacs, scyphistoma, spasmolytic, symposiarch, symptomatic, toponymical, zygomorphic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 79 6F 70 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -.--. --- .--. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01101111 01110000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y o p i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0079 006F 0070 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)479181827569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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