noun

• A nearsighted person.

  ‘The distinctive style of Impressionist painters has been attributed to myopia, and Cézanne, Degas, Pissarro, and Renoir were all known to be myopes.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Some reports claim that positive suggestion can significantly improve visual acuity (e.g., in myopes).’
  • ‘A variant of it also affects a small handful of extreme myopes, those who have been severely short-sighted since early childhood.’
  • ‘This is much appreciated by geezers, myopes, and in my case, myopic geezers.’