lynx-eyed

English

Adjective

lynx-eyed (comparative more lynx-eyed, superlative most lynx-eyed)

1. Possessing particularly good vision.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 131:

     Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]

   • 1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264:

     It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.

Synonyms

• eagle-eyed
• hawk-eyed

Translations

eagle-eyed — see eagle-eyed