presbyopic

English

Etymology

From presbyopia +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/, /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

presbyopic (comparative more presbyopic, superlative most presbyopic)

  1. Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia. [from 19th c.]
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:
      the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out []

Noun

presbyopic (plural presbyopics)

  1. A person who has presbyopia.
    • 2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere:
      These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses.

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