quick-sighted
See also: quicksighted
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quick-sighted (comparative more quick-sighted, superlative most quick-sighted)
- Having keen vision.
- The quick-sighted hawk saw the small mouse from a great height.
- Keenly perceptive.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 3:
- She loved every body, was interested in every body’s happiness, quicksighted to every body’s merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.