Synonyms for myopia
maɪˈoʊ pi əmy·opi·a

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1. myopianoun

   Antonyms:
   hyperopia, farsightedness

2. myopianoun

   Antonyms:
   farsightedness, hyperopia

3. myopianoun

   Antonyms:
   hyperopia, farsightedness

4. myopianoun

   Synonyms:
   shortsightedness, nearsightedness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightednessnoun

   (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred

   Synonyms:
   improvidence, nearsightedness, shortsightedness

   Antonyms:
   longsightedness, hyperopia, farsightedness, hypermetropy, hypermetropia

Matched Categories

1. • Ametropia
   • Ophthalmology

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1. List of paraphrases for "myopia":

   short-sightedness, shortsightedness

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. myopia

   Synonyms:
   Hypometropia, near sightedness, near-sightedness, nearsightedness, short sightedness, short-sightedness, shortsightedness

2. myopia

   Synonyms:
   Nearsightedness

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1. Ian Morgan:

   It's a potential way to increase the amount of light, in hopes of preventing myopia and allow kids to continue (their) education without inconvenience for them.

2. Allison Babiuch:

   There are reasons why we don’t want people to have high myopia.

3. Nathan Congdon:

   China has among the highest rates of myopia and it's the only country in the world that does eye exercises, so it's probably not working all that well.

4. Jeremy Guggenheim:

   It’s important to keep in mind that this type of study can never pin-point the precise causes of myopia in the way that is possible using purpose-designed clinical trials, nevertheless, the risk factors that were identified in the new study fit neatly with what has been learned in recent years from such trials.

5. Kate Bedingfield:

   Despite the breathless coverage each new View Trump attack gets, this endless rotation of the same debunked smears isn't the product of strategic genius, it's a sign of myopia and desperation as each successive attempt backfires, re-elevating a massive View Trump liability while leaving View Trump campaign scrambling to find something new.