quicksighted

See also: quick-sighted

English

Etymology

From quick +‎ sighted.

Adjective

quicksighted (comparative more quicksighted, superlative most quicksighted)

  1. Alternative spelling of quick-sighted.
    • 1849 March, Charles Kingsley, “The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 206:
      Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation.
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