clear-sighted

• clearsighted

clear-sighted (comparative more clear-sighted or clearer-sighted, superlative most clear-sighted or clearest-sighted)

1. Having sharp vision.
2. Acutely perceptive or discerning; perspicacious.
   • 1905 December 8, “The Russian Empire—and After?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 June 2025:

     Who can form even a likely guess as to what is to succeed, even the best-informed and clearest-sighted Russian, except as to his own immediate neighborhood? The proceedings of one neighborhood cannot in the least be inferred from those of another.

   • 1995 December 13, Philip Brandes, “Theater Review: Strong Ensemble Delivers Powerful ‘Incident at Vichy’”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2021:

     Even the clearer-sighted prisoners make their own compromises with reality. An amiable artist (Lon Huber) had left his hiding place for a walk even though he knew the danger, while the best-informed of the lot, a Marxist electrician (Tim O’Hare), lives his own life as a historical abstraction amid a larger class struggle.

   • 2007 June 2, Rosie Strode, “I was brought up in the exclusive brethren”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 October 2014:

     Eventually, in 1970, at a Meeting in Aberdeen, he appeared drunk and stated that his word was of such consequence that the Bible was no longer necessary - a bombshell that caused a number of clearer-sighted Brethren to protest and break away.

• clear-eyed

• clear-sightedness

• clairvoyant