[syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Farsighted \Far"sight`ed\, a.
1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment
regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Med.) Hypermetropic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
farsighted
adj 1: able to see distant objects clearly [syn: farsighted,
presbyopic] [ant: myopic, nearsighted,
shortsighted]
2: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required
farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical
issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted,
foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "farsighted":
Argus-eyed, acute, anticipant, anticipatory, apperceptive,
appercipient, argute, asquint, astigmatic, astute, blink-eyed,
blinking, blinky, cat-eyed, clairvoyant, clear-eyed, clear-sighted,
cogent, discerning, divinatory, eagle-eyed, eye-minded, farseeing,
ferret-eyed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted,
forethoughted, forethoughtful, hawk-eyed, incisive, intuitive,
longheaded, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted,
penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous,
piercing, poor-sighted, precognitive, precognizant, prepared,
presbyopic, prescient, provident, providential, prudent, ready,
sagacious, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, shortsighted, squinch-eyed,
squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic,
telescopic, trenchant, understanding, winking