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# myopia

«myopia» in Mova's school dictionary: **Short-sightedness: being able to see things close to you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (myopia, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Short-sightedness: being able to see things close to you clearly but things far away look blurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#m1)

2) (formal) Not thinking about the future or about what will happen later; only thinking about now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons, myopia is explained with the eye and lenses: the eye focuses light in front of the retina instead of on it, so glasses with concave (curved-in) lenses help. In news and formal writing it can mean a lack of foresight, e.g. «political myopia».

### examples

- The optician said I have myopia, so I need glasses for the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x1)
- Myopia means you can read a book but not a sign across the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x2)
- More children have myopia today, and doctors say playing outside may help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x3)
- Glasses for myopia have lenses that are thinner in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x4)
- My brother's myopia got worse, so he got contact lenses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x5)
- The newspaper blamed the council's myopia for not planning ahead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. The adjective is «myopic» (a myopic child; a myopic decision). The opposite is hypermetropia or long-sightedness (US: nearsighted = myopic, farsighted = long-sighted). Pronounced «my-OH-pee-a».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «myopia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/myopia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.