Word Meanings - CLEAR-SIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
Related words: (words related to CLEAR-SIGHTED)
- SEEMINGNESS
Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby. - DISCERNANCE
Discernment. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - SEERSUCKER
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - SEEK
Sick. Chaucer. - REASONLESS
1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. - REASONABLY
1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder. - SEEMING
1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, - CLEAR-HEADED
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n. - DISCERNINGLY
In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - DISCERNMENT
1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - DISCERN
1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern - SEEDLESS
Without seed or seeds. - SEEDCOD
A seedlip. - SEETHER
A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - MESEEMS
It seems to me. - WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - LOPSEED
A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits. - GAPESEED
Any strange sight. Wright. - BESEECH
1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. - BESEEMING
1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret. - UPSEEK
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey. - BERSEEM
An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - HAGSEED
The offspring of a hag. Shak. - UNFORESEE
To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.