myopic

Adjective

  1. unable to see distant objects clearly
  2. lacking foresight or scope; “a short view of the problem”; “shortsighted policies”; “shortsighted critics derided the plan”; “myopic thinking”
  1. Medicine nearsighted.

lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending

Thesaurus

Adjective

  1. thick lenses may restrict a myopic patient's field of view

Similar Words: short-sighted nearsighted as blind as a bat purblind

Opposites: long-sighted

  1. the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending

Similar Words: unimaginative uncreative unadventurous narrow-minded lacking foresight small-minded short-term narrow insular parochial provincial

Opposites: farsighted