🇬🇧🇪🇸 myopic - miope : English Lesson

Meaning of "myopic" ("miope"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If someone is myopic, it means their eyes can see things that are close very clearly, like a book in their hands, but things that are far away, like the school sign across the street or the scoreboard at a game, look blurry or fuzzy. A myopic person often needs glasses to help them see distant things clearly.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our myopic dog barks at distant dumpsters, bravely protecting us from dangerous, blurry ghosts.

The myopic lifeguard put on her glasses and realized the “shark fin” was just Grandpa’s bald head in the water.

Because he was myopic, he waved at a tree, thinking it was his friend in a very green outfit.

The myopic superhero kept rescuing garden gnomes, thinking they were tiny frozen citizens in danger.

Myopic people can often read small text up close really well, but distant things look so fuzzy that a faraway cow might just look like a moving marshmallow.

On the park bench, a myopic woman squinted across the field. The myopic eyes made flags look like butterflies; the myopic view turned a man into a child. A dog raced close and a friend waved. The myopic blur cleared with a laugh and a bright hug. The myopic woman smiled, grateful.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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